Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3 1/2] ehea: kzalloc GFP_ATOMIC fix

From: Christoph Raisch <hidden>
Date: 2006-10-27 11:15:21
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Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote on 27.10.2006 05:13:13:

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:11:42 +0200
Jan-Bernd Themann [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

This patch fixes kzalloc parameters (GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL)

why?


these few kcallocs run in atomic context in some situations.
therefore GFP_KERNEL is no good idea.

Christoph R.