From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] crypto: talitos - fix GFP flag usage
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:33:45 -0500
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On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:

> use GFP_ATOMIC when necessary; use atomic_t when allocating  
> submit_count.

why?

- k