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author | Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> | 2007-03-29 16:47:58 -0400 |
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committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2007-04-30 22:17:11 -0700 |
commit | c5a4dd8b7c15927a8fbff83171b57cad675a79b9 (patch) | |
tree | 2d3b1930449b31f69dc70a6e1d4e0f0532f3f118 /Documentation/kbuild | |
parent | 2bea90d43a050bbc4021d44e59beb34f384438db (diff) |
SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc
Currently rpc_malloc sets req->rq_buffer internally. Make this a more
generic interface: return a pointer to the new buffer (or NULL) and
make the caller set req->rq_buffer and req->rq_bufsize. This looks much
more like kmalloc and eliminates the side effects.
To fix a potential deadlock, this patch also replaces GFP_NOFS with
GFP_NOWAIT in rpc_malloc. This prevents async RPCs from sleeping outside
the RPC's task scheduler while allocating their buffer.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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