[openib-general] [Andrew Morton] inappropriate use of in_atomic()

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Fri Mar 11 08:56:37 PST 2005


    Hal> There aren't that many places this is called. Also, it
    Hal> appears to me that sa_query.c is already doing this for some
    Hal> of it's memory allocation and this could be passed down to
    Hal> ib_post_send_mad.

Yes, that's an alternate solution.  The question is whether it's worth
changing the API so that some callers can use GFP_KERNEL.

 - R.



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