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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31
Hi Linus,

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Hmm. Are there any reasons why the scheduler fixups can't go in this
> > series? Do they depend on other things in -tip?
>
> [ .. because otherwise we'll inevitably just get unnecessary bug-reports
> about this all - harmless or not, that message would be annoying and
> certainly cause people to panic. ]

OK, so I merged and pushed these two patches to 'for-linus' branch of my
tree and I don't see any more warnings on boot.

Pekka

From b38af0a398ec80c04769eb322dc92e1833481483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:42:36 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] sched: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator

Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before sched_init(), we should use kzalloc()
and not the bootmem allocator.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
---
kernel/sched.c | 20 ++++++++------------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 26efa47..cb01c5c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/tick.h>
-#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
@@ -7525,21 +7524,18 @@ static void rq_attach_root(struct rq *rq, struct root_domain *rd)

static int __init_refok init_rootdomain(struct root_domain *rd, bool bootmem)
{
+ gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL;
+
memset(rd, 0, sizeof(*rd));

- if (bootmem) {
- alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&def_root_domain.span);
- alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&def_root_domain.online);
- alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&def_root_domain.rto_mask);
- cpupri_init(&rd->cpupri, true);
- return 0;
- }
+ if (bootmem)
+ gfp = GFP_NOWAIT;

- if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&rd->span, GFP_KERNEL))
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&rd->span, gfp))
goto out;
- if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&rd->online, GFP_KERNEL))
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&rd->online, gfp))
goto free_span;
- if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&rd->rto_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&rd->rto_mask, gfp))
goto free_online;

if (cpupri_init(&rd->cpupri, false) != 0)
@@ -8865,7 +8861,7 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
* we use alloc_bootmem().
*/
if (alloc_size) {
- ptr = (unsigned long)alloc_bootmem(alloc_size);
+ ptr = (unsigned long)kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_NOWAIT);

#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
init_task_group.se = (struct sched_entity **)ptr;
--
1.6.0.4
From dbf86f2ba459e3b070c6d74aad1e6b115171dd47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:53:37 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] vt: use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator

Now that kmem_cache_init() happens before console_init(), we should use
kzalloc() and not the bootmem allocator.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
---
drivers/char/vt.c | 8 ++------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 08151d4..c796a86 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
-#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/pm.h>
#include <linux/font.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
@@ -2875,14 +2874,11 @@ static int __init con_init(void)
mod_timer(&console_timer, jiffies + blankinterval);
}

- /*
- * kmalloc is not running yet - we use the bootmem allocator.
- */
for (currcons = 0; currcons < MIN_NR_CONSOLES; currcons++) {
- vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(struct vc_data));
+ vc_cons[currcons].d = vc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vc_data), GFP_NOWAIT);
INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
- vc->vc_screenbuf = (unsigned short *)alloc_bootmem(vc->vc_screenbuf_size);
+ vc->vc_screenbuf = kzalloc(vc->vc_screenbuf_size, GFP_NOWAIT);
vc->vc_kmalloced = 0;
vc_init(vc, vc->vc_rows, vc->vc_cols,
currcons || !vc->vc_sw->con_save_screen);
--
1.6.0.4


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