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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:38:06 -0600
From: Tommy Reynolds <reynolds@redhat.com>
To: "chiranjeevi vaka" <cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com>
Cc: washer@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using kmalloc
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Uttered "chiranjeevi vaka" <cvaka_kernel@yahoo.com>, spoke thus:

>  I am trying to get something around 600 to 1000 bytes
>  using kmalloc. This one is for some changes in TCP/IP
>  stack. I am trying to implement a new kernel data
>  structure in tcp layer. So can you suggest me what
>  functionality to use to come out of that hanging.

Be sure to use "kmalloc( 1000, GFP_ATOMIC )" if you don't want to block waiting
for the memory.  Check for a NULL result, because you might not be able to get
the memory.
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