linux-kernel - Re: acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design

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Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:56:51 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	len.brown@...el.com
Subject: Re: acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design

Hi!

> > Subject: acpi_evaluate_integer broken by design
> 
> Please don't give patches daft and not very meaningful titles.  It just
> means that someone else has to invent a useful title and then we get
> the same patch floating about with two different titles.

Sorry. I was kind of angry at that code because it does not contain
any remarks when it is okay to call it, etc.

> > Date: 	Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:05:08 +0100
> > Sender: linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
> >
> > 
> > Now I know why I had strange "scheduling in atomic" problems:
> > acpi_evaluate_integer() does malloc(..., irqs_disabled() ? GFP_ATOMIC
> > : GFP_KERNEL)... which is (of course) broken.
> 
> That is kinda weird.  When did this all start happening?

With the HP LED driver... so this is "would be nice for 2.6.28, not
worth backporting" material.

> > There's no way to reliably tell if we need GFP_ATOMIC or not from
> > code, this one for example fails to detect spinlocks held.
> > 
> > Fortunately, allocation seems small enough to be done on stack.
> 
> It's 24 bytes in an x86_64 allmodconfig build.  Clearly it should be a
> local.

Yep.
									Pavel
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