Re: can kfree sleep?

[Andrew Morton]

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just a question: can kfree sleep?

Nope.  All memory freeing codepaths are atomic and may be called from any
context except NMI handlers.
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