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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com,
	mingo@elte.hu, yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:32:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245101567.12400.38.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090615112827.GC6012@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 13:28 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> If a couple of specialised early boot code places have
> to test slab_is_available() to prevent crap leaking into
> our main allocators, then that's quite fine by me.

slab_is_available() will not fix the problem in that case. In fact,
 existing tests of slab_is_available() have been broken because they
assumed that when it was true, then GFP_KERNEL would work.

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12 13:25 [GIT PULL] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31 Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 13:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 13:45   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 14:30     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-12 16:16 ` [GIT PULL v2] " Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 17:30   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-12 21:46     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15  6:46       ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15  9:10         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15  9:38           ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 14:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-14  7:12     ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-15 14:55       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 14:58         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:05           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 15:11             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:27               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 15:57                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 16:08                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 17:15                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-15 18:19                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:48               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15  8:18   ` Heiko Carstens
2009-06-15  8:26     ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15  8:32       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15  8:52         ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15  9:08           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 10:20             ` Heiko Carstens
2009-06-15 10:21               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 10:31                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 10:36                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15  9:10     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15  9:41       ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15  9:48         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15  9:59           ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15  9:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15  9:57           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 10:27             ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 10:45               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 11:23                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 12:38                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-15 13:07                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-16  4:57                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16  5:28                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16  5:36                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16 15:12                           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-16 15:59                             ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 21:31                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16  4:46                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16  5:18                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16  5:29                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16 18:45                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-17  7:47                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-17 16:01                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-17 16:17                             ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-17 21:39                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 10:12           ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 10:39             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 11:22               ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 11:28                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 11:38                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 21:37                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16  4:42                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 21:32                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-06-16 15:08                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-16 19:10                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 19:23                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-16 19:33                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 19:48                             ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-17  5:18                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-17 16:45                               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-18  2:00                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-18  3:24                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-18  6:01                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-18  8:52                                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 21:58                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 22:06                           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 22:51                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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