Re: use of preempt_count instead of in_atomic() at leds-gpio.c

[Michael Buesch]

On Friday 21 March 2008 21:16:48 Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2008 20:59:50 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > They could of course be switched to using
> > kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC)+memcpy()+schedule_task().  That's rather slow, but this
> > is not a performance-sensitive area.  But more seriously, this could lead
> > to messages getting lost from a dying machine.
> 
> Well, IMO drivers that need to sleep to transmit some data (to whatever,
> the screen or something) are not useful for debugging a crashing kernel anyway.
> Or how high is the possibility that it'd survive the actual sleep in the
> memory allocation? I'd say almost zero.
> So that schedule_task() is not that bad.

and

transmit_data_func()
{
	if (!oops_in_progress) {
		schedule_transmission_for_later();
	} else {
		/* We crash anyway, so we don't care about
		 * possible deadlocks from memory alloc sleeps
		 * or whatever. */
		close_eyes_and_transmit_it_now();
	}
}


-- 
Greetings Michael.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/