[PATCH] ioremap kmallocs inside spinlocks - review request

John Rose johnrose at austin.ibm.com
Tue Feb 3 04:14:39 EST 2004


I like Nathan's patch quite a bit more than what I came up with :)  I
was looking at the problem from the wrong angle I guess.

Thanks-
John

> Sorry for not getting back to you. Paul and I had a talk and came to the
> same conclusion, ioremap can sleep so its safe to use a semaphore there.
>
> BTW Every time I look at the imalloc code I get that feeling we should
> be using the generic get_vm_area :)
>
> Anton


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