Re: can kfree sleep?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:10:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nope.  All memory freeing codepaths are atomic and may be called from any
> context except NMI handlers.

Not true for vfree()

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