Re: kmalloc without GFP_xxx?

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Jörn Engel wrote:

>
> All nice and well.  But still, for the sake of simplicity and me not
> wanting to think, I prefer always using spin_lock_irqsave for
> everything.  Since when should I stop and think about my own code?

OK, I use spin_lock_irqsave first, and then I only use spin_lock when I
already know interrupts are off.  But the locks I usually use are used by
interrupts and that is reason enough to use it.  I wouldn't use the
_irqsave for simplicity, I use it since I still believe it keeps latency
down for SMP.

>
> In fact, why don't we all sit down and start using KCSP for kernel
> hacking? ;)
>

Naw, I'm doing my PhD on implemting Linux drivers in SmallTalk. That will
make everybody happy!

-- Steve
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