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SubjectRe: Broken "cpualloc: the allocator" patch
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> Yup, makes sense. PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE is set to zero if !CONFIG_MODULES.
> Is there a reason we don't do something like this in bootmem allocator?
> Hannes?
> Pekka
>
> diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
> index ac5a891..ee6431f 100644
> --- a/mm/bootmem.c
> +++ b/mm/bootmem.c
> @@ -435,7 +435,9 @@ static void * __init alloc_bootmem_core(struct bootmem_data *bdata,
> unsigned long fallback = 0;
> unsigned long min, max, start, sidx, midx, step;
>
> - BUG_ON(!size);
> + if (!size)
> + return NULL;
> +
> BUG_ON(align & (align - 1));
> BUG_ON(limit && goal + size > limit);

That comes from the original code, I have no strong opinion on it.

Christoph already fixed it up by making PERCPU_MODULE_RESERVE always
!0 and it looks like all other callsites are happy with the current
behaviour.

Hannes


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