Re: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP_KERNEL

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 19:54:17 EST


KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
UMH_WAIT_EXEC and UMH_WAIT_PROC mean wait on finish of exec or process exit.
I can't imagine situation that exec is waitable *and* allocate isn't waitable.

Yeah, that's why I was asking about UMH_NO_WAIT, where the caller may not want to wait, but the context would allow the allocation to block if necessary.

J
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