On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:25:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Paul Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Fix a couple of infrequently encountered 'sleeping function
> > called from invalid context' in the cpuset hooks in
> > __alloc_pages. Could sleep while interrupts disabled.
>
> I'd have thought that if all the callers get their __GFP_HARDWALLS correct
> then that fishy-looking in_interrupt() test in __cpuset_zone_allowed()
> could be removed?
I suggested to Paul that __cpuset_zone_allowed() should check for
__GFP_WAIT and allow the allocation if it is not set. Any allocation
from interrupt context has to be GFP_ATOMIC so that would kill
the need for the in_interrupt() check as well. I'm probably missing
something, but that seemed like the obvious fix to me...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
R&D Software Enginner
SGI Australian Software Group
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