From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764497AbYEIAFO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 20:05:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752093AbYEIAE6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 20:04:58 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:53179 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbYEIAE5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 20:04:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 09:04:27 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP_KERNEL Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Andrew Morton , Li Zefan , Paul Menage , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , LKML , Rusty Russell In-Reply-To: <4823928D.7080907@goop.org> References: <20080509084248.43B5.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <4823928D.7080907@goop.org> Message-Id: <20080509085731.43BD.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > UMH_WAIT_EXEC and UMH_WAIT_PROC mean wait on finish of exec or process exit. > > I can't imagine situation that exec is waitable *and* allocate isn't waitable. > > Yeah, that's why I was asking about UMH_NO_WAIT, where the caller may > not want to wait, but the context would allow the allocation to block if > necessary. sorry, I misunderstood ;) Yeah, you are right. but it is no regression. I agree with my plan have improve chance, but it is better than current.