From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4 0/2] Lockless memory allocator and list
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:49:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289908158.2109.568.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289868791-16658-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com>
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 08:53 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Hi, Len,
>
> This patchset is needed by APEI support. Which involves some lockless
> operations. And I think they can be used by some other part of kernel
> too.
The whole notion of allocating memory from NMI context seems incredibly
offensive.
And then there's the whole point of not merging stuff without a user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-16 0:53 [PATCH -v4 0/2] Lockless memory allocator and list Huang Ying
2010-11-16 0:53 ` [PATCH -v4 1/2] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless Huang Ying
2010-11-16 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-17 2:18 ` Huang Ying
2010-11-17 2:35 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-17 3:03 ` Huang Ying
2010-11-17 3:57 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-17 6:05 ` Huang Ying
2010-11-17 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 11:16 ` huang ying
2010-11-17 11:16 ` huang ying
2010-11-17 11:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 11:47 ` huang ying
2010-11-17 11:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 1:14 ` Huang Ying
2010-11-18 8:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 8:43 ` Paul Mundt
2010-11-18 8:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-18 9:03 ` Paul Mundt
2010-11-16 0:53 ` [PATCH -v4 2/2] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list Huang Ying
2010-11-16 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-16 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 11:49 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-11-16 16:38 ` [PATCH -v4 0/2] Lockless memory allocator and list Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 18:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-17 1:45 ` Huang Ying
2010-11-17 1:03 ` Huang Ying
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