[PATCH 4/6] crypto: talitos - fix GFP flag usage

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu Jul 17 22:17:58 EST 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:33:45PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
> 
> >use GFP_ATOMIC when necessary; use atomic_t when allocating  
> >submit_count.
> 
> why?

You mean why are atomics required? Yes that is a good question.

Kim?

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