From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 29 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:04:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20080730130419.49986a25.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080729172337.b3d74100.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080730090650.79a5a749@kopernikus.site> <20080730021947.def99edc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200807302127.42148.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56936 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752940AbYG3UFI (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:05:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807302127.42148.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: bwalle@suse.de, greg@kroah.com, hugh@veritas.com, gregkh@suse.de, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:41 +0200 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:06:50 +0200 Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > > > * Greg KH [2008-07-29 21:48]: > > > > > Isn't this the opposite end of the same problem for which Bernhard > > > > > has been repeatedly trying to find a taker for his patch: > > > > > > > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kexec/1882 > > > > > > > > Yes. It's not the kobject patch at fault here, it's the use of kobjects > > > > so early in the boot process. That needs to be fixed. > > > > It was a bit optimistic to stick an unconditional GFP_KERNEL allocation > > into the previously-atomic kobject_init(). > > > > It's only 128 bytes, so why can't we fix both problems thusly? > > Fixes the bug for me (also true for previous patch from Bernhard). > Cool. The offending patch has just got itself turfed from linux-next so my fix now has nothing to fix. We'll see what happens!