Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> You have small posibility that interrupt will eat up memory - interrupt in
> process that has PF_MEMALLOC. Patch: 

this is not the point of getblk, to fix the getblk deadlock the only way is to
implement a fail path in each caller and allow getblk to return NULL (as every
other memory allocation function can do).

Andrea
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