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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>>> What kind of conflicts are there against -tip? The diffstat
>>>>> suggests it's mostly in-SLAB code, right? There shouldnt be much
>>>>> to conflict, except kmemcheck - which has more or less trivial
>>>>> callbacks there.
>>>> The conflicting bits are the patches that remove bootmem allocator
>>>> uses in arch/x86 and kernel/sched.c.
>>> Give me an hour and i'll get some minimal testing done.
>>
>> This tree doesnt conflict (not even with kmecheck) - and the older
>> bits you sent against the scheduler and against x86 doesnt apply
>> anymore - but they do look scary.
>
> Btw, yeah, it doesn't conflict because I dropped the problematic patches
> and did the bootmem fallback instead.
>
> But now you know why I tried to push all this to -tip. Your tree
> is moving so fast that it's difficult to generate patches that
> apply to both, -tip and mainline, in this particular area :-).

Hey, i'd agree normally, but the scheduler tree was very quiet in
this cycle, for a change :-)

The main "problem" here really is the multi-tree impact of such
broad changes. Those are best kept in a tree like -mm, which goes on
top of all other trees and is thus basically the only tree that can
do tree-wide changes.

Anyway, if you rebase to latest -git it should be fine - Linus
pulled the scheduler and x86 bits.

Ingo


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