Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI core: turn transfers to be linked list

[Vitaly Wool]

Greg KH wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:49:11AM +0300, Vitaly Wool wrote:
>  
>
> > The problem is: we're using real-time enhancements patch developed by 
> > Ingo/Sven/Daniel etc. You cannot call kmalloc from the interrupt 
> > context  if you're using this patch.
> >    
>
> So you can't even call:
> 	kmalloc(sizeof(foo), GFP_ATOMIC);
> in an interrupt anymore?
> If so, that's going to break mainline pretty bad...
>  
Don't think it will... Since most of the interrupts will work in threads 
pretty well... and it's np to alloc memory from threads.

Vitaly
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