On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 03:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > Does that also apply to kmalloc()/kfree(), or are they safe?
>
> kfree() (or free_pages() or others of that type) is always safe.
> kmalloc(x, GFP_ATOMIC) works, but has problems (ie being over-eager
On 1 Dec 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> Actually, I did that because I thought send_sig_info() or kfree() might
> not be interrupt safe.
Signals are commonly sent from interrupts: kill_fasync() is quite commonly
supported by many device drivers, and the resulting SIGIO is almost
universally se
On Son, 2002-12-01 at 20:40, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm following the DRM kernel changes, and over the last few days code
> appeared that I really don't think should be in the kernel, and that I
> really don't want to merge.
>
> The problem appears to be that the DRM people are used to using
