Re: [PATCH] coredump: binfmt_elf{,_fdpic}.c: don't abuse GFP_ATOMIC

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun Jun 01 2008 - 17:09:03 EST


On 06/01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:55 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) was needed because it was called under tasklist_lock.
> > The code was changed to use rcu_read_lock(), we can use GFP_KERNEL.
>
> Classic RCU - still frequently used - disables preemption and thus does
> not allow us to use __GFP_WAIT.

Ah, I'm stupid, thanks!

please ignore this patch.

Oleg.

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