On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Tejun Heo wrote: > On 06/25/2010 11:20 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > allocpercpu() may be used during early boot after the page allocator > > has been bootstrapped but when interrupts are still off. Make sure > > that we do not do GFP_KERNEL allocations if this occurs. > > > > Cc: tj@xxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Christoph, how do you wanna route these patches? I already have the > other two patches in the percpu tree, I can push this there too, which > then you can pull into the allocator tree. > I think that's great for patches 2 and 3 in this series, but this patch is only a bandaid for allocations done in early boot whereas the real fix should be within a lower layer such as the slab or page allocator since the irq context on the boot cpu is not specific only to percpu. -- 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>