percpu variables from softirq context

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 06:08, Vimal <j.vimal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to allocate a per-cpu variable from a softirq context, but
> the documentation for "alloc_percpu" says that the variable is
> allocated in GFP_KERNEL context, which can sleep.
>
> Is there a way around this?

perhaps, by design, you should first re-think, could you do that
outside of softirq context? perhaps by deferring it into workqueue?


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