Re: acpi_os_allocate(GFP_KERNEL) (was Re: acpi_evaluate_integer brokenby design)

From: Len Brown
Date: Thu Dec 18 2008 - 01:07:32 EST




-- Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

> In fact, we should be using GFP_ATOMIC already while devices are being
> suspended, so we can switch from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC even before
> interrupts are enabled.

true. it makes me wonder if tinkering with ACPI
is a bad idea -- for it will address only one user of kmalloc.
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