Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:46:23 -0800 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | [PATCH]: xen: fix too early kmalloc call |
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Subject: xen: fix too early kmalloc call
From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Impact: fixes bootup of xen.
Christophe reported the following problem:
> (basically it seems that SLAB is not yet up, with earlyprintk it is > giving me an Oops in __kmalloc before)
Replace call to kmalloc with alloc_bootmem.
Also from Christophe: > (me) > > Or I could copy the text and submit it as a new patch? > > Yes, I would prefer that. Also, my commit message was not really > following Kernel standards and it's only a very simple change.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> --- drivers/xen/events.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/drivers/xen/events.c +++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/drivers/xen/events.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <linux/irq.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/string.h> +#include <linux/bootmem.h> #include <asm/ptrace.h> #include <asm/irq.h> @@ -831,8 +832,8 @@ void __init xen_init_IRQ(void) int i; size_t size = nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct cpu_evtchn_s); - cpu_evtchn_mask_p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - BUG_ON(cpu_evtchn_mask == NULL); + cpu_evtchn_mask_p = alloc_bootmem(size); + BUG_ON(cpu_evtchn_mask_p == NULL); init_evtchn_cpu_bindings();
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