Re: Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv6: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held

[Eric Dumazet]

Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 Ã 22:50 +0200, Julia Lawall a Ãcrit :

> I think the proposed patch does not work, because the for loop overwrites 
> p.  That use of p looks like it is completely local to the for loop, so 
> perhaps a new variable p1 could be added to be used there?

Please do so.

I just wanted to tell you changing GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC is not an
appropriate way to solve this kind of problems. My patch was to get an
idea, not a full and tested patch :)




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