Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31 | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:00:12 +1000 |
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> So I'm very much ok with the whole "use magic gfp_mask to indicate what > works at what stage". And yes, I think it makes sense to extend it to the > page allocator and might_sleep too, because GFP_KERNEL has all the same > issues regardless of whether it's about page allocation or about slab > allocators. And any "might_sleep" suppression really does tend to be about > the exact same thing.
Argh... still broken.
In fact, my initial patch added it to the page allocator, which worked for me. Pekka patch removed that and made it slab-only. So I'm blowing up at boot in lockdep or so because I'm allocating page tables on ppc32 with __get_free_pages() and GFP_KERNEL.
I'll cook up a patch.
Cheers, Ben.
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