Re: Can kmem_cache_free block?

[Nick Piggin]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 06:23, Steve French wrote:
> Is kmem_cache_free safe to call while holding a spinlock (can
> kmem_cache_free ever block or recurse into a file system)?
>
> I see it trying to grab just another spinlock which is probably fine
> (but was worried whether any of the worker functions called a sem) ...
> my assumption is that it would be safe, but the man page doesn't
> mention when it can be used safely.

Yes you can call it from any context.

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