[[RESEND]PATCH staging/speakup v3 3/3] use speakup_allocate as per required context

Pranay Srivastava pranjas at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 10:14:02 UTC 2017


On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 02:07:11PM +0530, Pranay Kr. Srivastava wrote:
>> speakup_allocate used GFP_ATOMIC for allocations
>> even while during initialization due to it's use
>> in notifier call.
>
> Is that a problem?

No that's the way it should be. I was just trying to say that allocation
should be context based[?]. If we can be lenient then that's better[?]

>
>> Pass GFP_ flags as well to speakup_allocate depending
>> on the context it is called in.
>
> At init, we should be fine to use GFP_ATOMIC, so is this change really
> needed?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



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