hvc console sleep under spinlock

Olof Johansson olof at austin.ibm.com
Fri Oct 31 14:40:07 EST 2003


Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> Would something like this suffice?  I haven't tested it with the
>> spinlock debug patch, but I have booted and run it with no apparent
>> problems.
>
>
> Er, ignore that earlier patch; it introduces an unused variable and a
> memory leak.  How about this one?

The return value of kmalloc() is never verified to be non-NULL.

Besides that it looks good to me.


-Olof

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