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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@ts.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: zram: zsmalloc calls sleeping function from atomic context
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:52:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140318125245.GG22095@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140317160117.9bfbfdd5128d45a80f58070c@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> btw, I note that vunmap() itself already has a might_sleep() in it, and
> I can't work out why - I don't think it _does_ sleep.  The changelog to
> 34754b69a6f87aa6aa is, in toto:
> 
> "x86: make vmap yell louder when it is used under irqs_disabled()"
> 
> No explanation *why*.  And why didn't it use WARN_ON(irqs_disabled())?

Man I suck.. and 5 years ago too. I can barely remember last week.

Lets see if the email archive has clues.

vmap()
  get_vm_area_caller()
    __get_vm_area_node(.gfp = GFP_KERNEL)
      kmalloc_node(gfp);


It does sleep.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/13/115

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-17 14:43 Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-03-17 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-18 12:05   ` David Vrabel
2014-03-18 12:52   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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