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Message-ID: <20080307131841.GE7365@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:18:41 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v3

> this is just for handling the case where that fails
> (basically near/totally OOM or the case where you get a fatal signal)

I didn't think GFP_KERNEL was interruptible by signals...
(although sometimes under oom thrashing I think it would be great if it was...) 

-Andi
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