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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Dave S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tcp_do_sendmsg() allocation still broken ?
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010281859570.865-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 07:12:44PM -0200
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On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 07:12:44PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
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> David,
> 
> tcp_do_sendmsg() still allocates using GFP_KERNEL when it can't, it seems: 

tcp_do_sendmsg() should only be called from process context, because it can
sleep for other reasons anyways. 

If someone calls it from interrupt context it needs to be fixed.


-Andi
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