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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Mikulas Patocka)
Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011006210743.7808D-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> you wrote:

> NOTE: no allocations in IRQ are safe. Not only high-order ones. 
> Allocation in IRQ may fail any time and you must recover without lost of
> functionality (network can lose packets any time, if you are doing some
> general device driver, you must preallocate all buffers in process
> context).

how again do you deal with calling vfree() on the ones where you used
vmalloc instead of the buddy allocator ?