From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and may fail without recovery strategy
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:24:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109212400.5bd1e829@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109205633.GB19904@suse.de>
> It dies a flaming horrible death, pretty much like the whole rest of the
> system if allocating such a small ammount of memory is causing failures
> :)
Now and then I run tests with kmalloc set to randomly fail - the kernel
is suprisingly robust these days.
> Give me a few hours to test here, your change might not be necessary...
The alternative is pretty horrible - mark the function as int and
requiring a return check then start propogating it out and weep at the
gcc warnings...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 18:35 Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 19:49 ` [PATCH post 2.6.28] firewire: core: fix sleep in atomic context due to driver core change Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-09 21:54 ` Greg KH
2009-01-09 22:28 ` [git pull] FireWire fix Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 20:56 ` post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and may fail without recovery strategy Greg KH
2009-01-09 21:13 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:20 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:34 ` Greg KH
2009-01-09 21:30 ` Greg KH
2009-01-09 21:40 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:24 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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