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reasons for kmalloc GFP_ATOMIC...

reasons for kmalloc GFP_ATOMIC...

Posted Mar 31, 2008 21:57 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: reasons for kmalloc GFP_ATOMIC... by hmh
Parent article: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

And you might even have a reason to call it with GFP_ATOMIC even if you have a user context
and could, theoretically, sleep!


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