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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:27:14 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> You have small posibility that interrupt will eat up memory - interrupt in
> process that has PF_MEMALLOC. Patch: 

this is not the point of getblk, to fix the getblk deadlock the only way is to
implement a fail path in each caller and allow getblk to return NULL (as every
other memory allocation function can do).

Andrea
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