Re: [RFC] SL[AUO]B common code 5/9] slabs: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators

Christoph Lameter
2012-05-17T14:27:23Z

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> > > > If for whatever reordering people may decide doing another state is
> > > added, or
> > > > this function is called later, that will fail
> > Then the assumptions that SYSFS is the final state is no longer true and
> > therefore the code needs to be inspected if this change affects anything.
> >
> yes, by humans, that are known to make mistakes. Using >= is a tiny attitude
> that protects about failures in this realm.

No it risks breakage because the code will run now under a condition when
the system has not been brought up fully.