From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547926B0055 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:01:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: References: <200906111959.n5BJxFj9021205@hera.kernel.org> <1244770230.7172.4.camel@pasglop> <1244779009.7172.52.camel@pasglop> <1244780756.7172.58.camel@pasglop> <1244783235.7172.61.camel@pasglop> <1244792079.7172.74.camel@pasglop> <1244792745.30512.13.camel@penberg-laptop> <1244796045.7172.82.camel@pasglop> <1244796211.30512.32.camel@penberg-laptop> <1244796837.7172.95.camel@pasglop> <1244797659.30512.37.camel@penberg-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:59 +1000 Message-Id: <1244815259.7172.167.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel list , linux-mm , mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de List-ID: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:49 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > So I am sending the GFP_NOWAIT conversion for boot code even though you > > didn't seem to like it (but didn't explicitly NAK) as it fixes problems > > on x86. > > The use GFP_NOWAIT means that the caller sites are still special cased for > an early boot situation. After bootstrap is complete the sites may use > GFP_KERNEL instead. Bad. Amen :-) Ben. -- 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