Re: kmalloc question

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 06:25, Andre.Messerschmidt@infineon.com wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I always thought that it is save to use kmalloc in an interrupt handler as
> long as you use GFP_ATOMIC. 
> Now someone told me that it is not allowed to use these functions in any way
> in an interrupt.
> 
> Can please someone clarify me here? 

GFP_ATOMIC is safe in an interrupt handler. You might get NULL back and
that it is your problem, but the kmalloc is safe