[PATCH] uml: avoid malloc to sleep in atomic sections
authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:42:58 +0000 (17:42 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:20:21 +0000 (19:20 -0800)
Ugly trick to help make malloc not sleeping - we can't do anything else.  But
this is not yet optimal, since spinlock don't trigger in_atomic() when
preemption is disabled.

Also, even if ugly, this was already used in one place, and was even more
bogus.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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