Re: [PATCH -v4 0/2] Lockless memory allocator and list

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 08:53 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Hi, Len,
> 
> This patchset is needed by APEI support. Which involves some lockless
> operations. And I think they can be used by some other part of kernel
> too.

The whole notion of allocating memory from NMI context seems incredibly
offensive.

And then there's the whole point of not merging stuff without a user.
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