From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106126B004D for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:58:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <1244800695.7172.115.camel@pasglop> References: <20090612091002.GA32052@elte.hu> <1244798515.7172.99.camel@pasglop> <84144f020906120224v5ef44637pb849fd247eab84ea@mail.gmail.com> <1244799389.7172.110.camel@pasglop> <1244800695.7172.115.camel@pasglop> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:00:29 +0300 Message-Id: <1244800829.30512.40.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Take a break, take a step back, and look at the big picture. Do you > > > really want to find all the needles in the haystack or just make sure > > > you wear gloves when handling the hay ? :-) On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 12:45 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > > Well, I would like to find the needles but I think we should do it with > > gloves on. > > > > If everyone is happy with this version of Ben's patch, I'm going to just > > apply it and push it to Linus. On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 19:58 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Thanks :-) Looks right at first glance. I'll test tomorrow. Nick? I do think this is the best short-term solution. We can get rid of it later on if we decide to fix up the callers instead. Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org