On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > It changes the bootstrap semantics. The requirement was so far that slab > > initialization must be complete before slab operations can be used. > > The problem is that slab itself uses slab it initialize itself. slab uses itself and also the page allocator to bootstrap itself. The sequence was always a bit fragile. The page allocator also needs to use the slab allocator in turn to bootstrap itself. > > This patchset allows such use before bootstrap on a node is complete and > > also allows the running of cache reaper before bootstrap is done. > > > > I have a bad feeling that this could be the result of Pekka's changes to > > the bootstrap. > > Not sure I fully follow what you're saying. > > Are you saying this is a regression fix after all? I am saying that we may have more trouble lurking here. If we fix it this way then the bootstrap of a node is different from system bootstrap that so far does not need these special measures. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>