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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	pavel@suse.cz,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: acpi_os_allocate(GFP_KERNEL) (was Re: acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:07:08 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812180104500.17738@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812170040.07977.rjw@sisk.pl>



-- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

> In fact, we should be using GFP_ATOMIC already while devices are being
> suspended, so we can switch from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC even before
> interrupts are enabled.

true.  it makes me wonder if tinkering with ACPI
is a bad idea -- for it will address only one user of kmalloc.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 11:05 acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design Pavel Machek
2008-11-25 18:41 ` Moore, Robert
2008-11-26 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-26 22:37   ` Len Brown
2008-11-26 23:02     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-27 13:58       ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-16  5:24       ` acpi_os_allocate(GFP_KERNEL) (was Re: acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design) Len Brown
2008-12-16  5:41         ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-16 15:34           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-16 23:40             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-16 23:49               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-18  6:07               ` Len Brown [this message]
2008-12-18 16:48                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-18  6:08               ` irqs_disabled() vs ACPI interpreter vs suspend Len Brown
2008-12-18 16:32                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-18 16:52                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-18 21:20                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-12-18 16:55                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-27 13:56   ` acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design Pavel Machek

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