Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:59 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:49 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > So I am sending the GFP_NOWAIT conversion for boot code even though you > > didn't seem to like it (but didn't explicitly NAK) as it fixes problems > > on x86. > > The use GFP_NOWAIT means that the caller sites are still special cased for > an early boot situation. After bootstrap is complete the sites may use > GFP_KERNEL instead. Bad.
Amen :-)
Ben.
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