From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: yjf@stanford.edu (Junfeng Yang)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mc@cs.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] 4 warnings in kernel/module.c
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:03:49 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14gPMF-0004U1-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0103230236500.3192-100000@epic8.Stanford.EDU> from "Junfeng Yang" at Mar 23, 2001 02:41:40 AM
> Hi, we modified the block checker and run it again on linux 2.4.1. (The
> block checker flags an error when blocking functions are called with
> either interrupts disabled or a spin lock held. )
lock_kernel() isnt a spinlock as such.
> 2. Can functions like kmem_cache_create, kmem_cache_alloc, alloc_page
> block?
They may block unless GFP_ATOMIC is specified in the arguments.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-23 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-23 10:41 Junfeng Yang
2001-03-23 11:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-03-23 19:49 ` Junfeng Yang
2001-03-23 11:05 ` Keith Owens
2001-03-23 19:56 ` Junfeng Yang
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