netdev - Re: Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv6: Use GFP

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Date:	Sun, 30 May 2010 22:55:12 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] net/ipv6: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held

Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 à 22:50 +0200, Julia Lawall a écrit :

> I think the proposed patch does not work, because the for loop overwrites 
> p.  That use of p looks like it is completely local to the for loop, so 
> perhaps a new variable p1 could be added to be used there?

Please do so.

I just wanted to tell you changing GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC is not an
appropriate way to solve this kind of problems. My patch was to get an
idea, not a full and tested patch :)




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