Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:00:06 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] generic-smp: remove kmalloc usage |
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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.
J
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