Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:21:12 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] generic-smp: remove kmalloc usage |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: >> The kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) has been in kernel/smp.c for about half a year, >> since: >> >> | commit 3d4422332711ef48ef0f132f1fcbfcbd56c7f3d1 >> | Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> >> | Date: Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200 >> | Subject: [PATCH] Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls >> >> Which introduced kernel/smp.c to begin with. It got merged on July 15. >> > > The kmalloc to resolve the stack lifetime vs rcu bug is more > recent than that - around August, I think.
yeah, it was in a late -rc, and solved rare crashes that you reported.
Ingo
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