Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB hangs

[Matthew Dharm]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:25:06PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >On Sul, 2004-01-11 at 00:23, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> >
> >>Where is USB kmalloc'ing with GFP_KERNEL?  I thought we tracked all those
> >>down and eliminated them.
> >
> >
> >Not sure. I just worked from tracebacks. I needed it to work rather
> >than having the time to go hunting for specific faults. Plus I'd
> >argue PF_MEMALLOC is a better solution anyway.
> 
> It certainly seems like a more comprehensive fix for that
> particular class of problems!  :)

Is it really more comprehensive?  As I see it, it will only affect code
executed in the context of the usb-storage thread.  But, what about code
which is invoked in tasklets or other contexts?

Matt

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