Re: [FBCON] Could be called outside of a process context. This fixes that.
Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:12:50 +0100
On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.981, 2003/03/25 10:21:46-08:00, jsimmons@maxwell.earthlink.net
> > [FBCON] Could be called outside of a process context. This fixes that.
> >
>
> GFP_ATOMIC memory allocations can and will return NULL when the system is
> under load. The driver _has_ to check for this, and cope with it.
James fixed this up in 1.982, when he changed things over to use workqueues.
Dave
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