Re: __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC causes 'sleeping from invalid context'

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Nick Piggin <[email protected]> writes:

> Giridhar Pemmasani wrote:
> > If __vmalloc is called in atomic context with GFP_ATOMIC flags,
> > __get_vm_area_node is called, which calls kmalloc_node with GFP_KERNEL
> > flags. This causes 'sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > mm/slab.c:2729' with 2.6.16-rc4 kernel. A simple solution is to use
> 
> I can't see what would cause this in either 2.6.16-rc4 or 2.6.17-rc4.
> What is the line?
> 
> > proper flags in __get_vm_area_node, depending on the context:
> 
> I don't think that always works, you might pass in GFP_ATOMIC due to
> having hold of a spinlock, for example.
> 
> Also, vmlist_lock isn't interrupt safe, so it still kind of goes
> against the spirit of GFP_ATOMIC (which is to allow allocation from
> interrupt context).

That's not the only problem. Allocating page table entries or flushing TLBs from
an atomic context is just not supported by the low level architecture code.

-Andi
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