From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
cl@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:54:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244800484.30512.39.camel@penberg-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090612095206.GA13607@wotan.suse.de>
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 11:52 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Maybe if we just not make it a general "tweak gfpflag" bit (at
> least not until a bit more discussion), but a specific workaround
> for the local_irq_enable in early boot problem.
>
> Seems like it would not be hard to track things down if we add
> a warning if we have GFP_WAIT and interrupts are not enabled...
AFAICT, the point is that Ben thinks that we shouldn't go and try to fix
up all the callers. But yes, we could certainly do that too.
Pekka
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 8:13 [PATCH 2/2] " Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 9:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-12 9:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 9:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 9:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 9:45 ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 9:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 10:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 15:22 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-12 9:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 9:52 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 9:54 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-06-12 9:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-25 4:38 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 10:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-12 10:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 10:15 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 10:30 ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 10:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 15:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 15:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 11:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 11:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 11:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 11:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 11:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 11:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 15:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-12 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-12 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 15:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-19 14:59 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-19 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-19 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-19 23:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-20 0:28 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-20 2:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-21 6:18 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-21 9:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-25 4:34 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-25 9:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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