Re: can kfree sleep?

[Arjan van de Ven]

> > Not true for vfree()
> 
> My interest at the moment is in what can sleep and what cannot sleep.
> Are you saying that vfree can sleep or that vfree cannot be called from
> at least one other context in addition to the NMI handler context (from
> which it cannot be called ...)?


vfree() is not allowed to be called from irq context, and since it can do cross cpu IPI's, you have to generally be careful with it.


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