Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Regression: ppc powerstation boot hang caused by slab initialisation code | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:51:07 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:21 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:51 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Ah, I notice you use SLAB, that's the second report of hangs with it due to > > the changes. You can try SLUB while I'm looking, might help. > > Yes, switching to slub fixes it ... although given that the identified > problem commit is a slab one, that's understandable ...
No, the commit actually moves all SL*B allocators earlier during boot.
Basically, the aim is to remove the need for alloc_bootmem in 90% of boot code by making SL*B available much earlier.
Cheers, Ben.
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