On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Gérard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:20:05 +0100 (CET)
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > This function may not be called in interrupt context.
>
> Such limitation looks poor implementation to me.
>
> I agree with you Gerard, and probably nobody truly even requires
> this limitation. I do plan to remove it after I've done a thorough
> investigation of the platform implementations.
In the meantime, you may just queue the thing to memory (as the allocated
memory chunk is likely to be larger than a pointer given alignment) and
use some helper thread that dequeue things to free and does the actual
free in 'non-interrupt' context (only on ports that are unable to free
under interrupt context, obviously).
Gérard.
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