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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 17 22:26:14 EST 2008


On Jul 17, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:

> 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.

Yep. the commit message isn't explaining why, just what :)

> Kim?

- k



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