[PATCH] pci_alloc_consistent in an interrupt context

[Eugene Surovegin]

At 04:34 PM 6/13/2002, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>Maybe the best answer is to change get_vm_area to use
>
>         (in_interrupt()? GFP_ATOMIC: GFP_KERNEL)
>
>instead of GFP_KERNEL in the kmalloc call, and eliminate the need to
>add the extra parameter.  I'll run that past davem and see what he
>thinks.

Well, your solution is much better :).

Do I understand correctly, we have to modify _all_ vmlist_lock locking to
use _irqsave counterparts?
Not just in get_vm_area, right?

Eugene.


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