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    SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31
    Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > * Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Linus,
    >>
    >> Here are the core patches for enabling slab before the scheduler initializes
    >> itself in the boot sequence. I added slab fallback support to the bootmem
    >> allocator so that we don't need a flag day for switching to early slab.
    >>
    >> I have tested this series on x86-64 with SLAB, SLUB, and SLOB. Note: the
    >> following harmless warning appears at boot:
    >>
    >> [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    >> [ 0.000000] WARNING: at mm/bootmem.c:535 alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem+0x31/0x56()
    >> [ 0.000000] Hardware name:
    >> [ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
    >> [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30 #472
    >> [ 0.000000] Call Trace:
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809d62c3>] ? alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem+0x31/0x56
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8025c304>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff8025c345>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809d62c3>] alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem+0x31/0x56
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809d6833>] ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic+0x3f/0xc9
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809d68ce>] ___alloc_bootmem+0x11/0x3a
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809d69a0>] __alloc_bootmem+0xb/0xd
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809d21f9>] sched_init+0x43/0x4ee
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809c0aae>] start_kernel+0x1cc/0x3aa
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809c029a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xaa/0xae
    >> [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff809c037f>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8
    >> [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
    >
    > Yeah, i got this too:
    >
    > [ 0.004000] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
    > [ 0.004000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
    > [ 0.004000] WARNING: at mm/bootmem.c:537 alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem+0x40/0x7e()
    > [ 0.004000] Hardware name: System Product Name
    > [ 0.004000] Modules linked in:
    > [ 0.004000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02102-g994fdea-dirty #52083
    > [ 0.004000] Call Trace:
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d699bb>] ? alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem+0x40/0x7e
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81078931>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8d/0xd0
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff8107899b>] warn_slowpath_null+0x27/0x3d
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d699bb>] alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem+0x40/0x7e
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81079992>] ? vprintk+0x2d6/0x31b
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d6a036>] ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic+0x4e/0xec
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d6a0f4>] ___alloc_bootmem+0x20/0x61
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81053dc8>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x1e/0x36
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d6a28b>] __alloc_bootmem+0x1e/0x34
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff817971cf>] vgacon_scrollback_startup+0x3d/0xa4
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff8103ad11>] ? native_io_delay+0xd/0x58
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff813d3545>] vgacon_startup+0x38f/0x3be
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d79275>] con_init+0x2e/0x246
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d789aa>] console_init+0x28/0x50
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff810530f5>] ? native_irq_enable+0xb/0xc
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4eead>] start_kernel+0x20e/0x35b
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e140>] ? early_idt_handler+0x0/0x71
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e2b2>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb9/0xd4
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e000>] ? __init_begin+0x0/0x140
    > [ 0.004000] [<ffffffff81d4e3d1>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x104/0x127
    > [ 0.004000] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
    > [ 0.004000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
    > [ 0.004000] console handover: boot [earlyser0] -> real [ttyS0]
    >
    > box booted up fine otherwise.

    got several patches clean up through those warning. will put those in git for you to pick up

    YH


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