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SubjectRe: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence
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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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