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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	peterz@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: Buggy IPI and MTRR code on low memory
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:13:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090128131327.417b01e1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128131202.21757da6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:12:02 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Thought: do we need to do the kmalloc at all?  Perhaps we can instead
> use a statically allocated per-cpu call_single_data local to
> kernel/smp.c?  It would need a spinlock or something to protect it...

(not a spinlock - get_cpu_var/put_cpu_var will suffice)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-28 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28 16:38 Buggy IPI and MTRR code on low memory Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 16:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 16:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-28 16:56   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 17:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-28 17:24   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 18:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-28 18:52       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 18:22     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-28 18:34       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 21:13   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-28 21:23     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 22:07       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 22:47         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 23:20           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 23:50             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-28 23:25 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-28 23:41   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29  0:52   ` [PATCH] use per cpu data for single cpu ipi calls Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29  1:30     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-29  1:56       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29  8:49       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-29 11:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 11:41           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-29 13:42             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 14:07             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29 15:08         ` [PATCH -v2] " Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29 15:33           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-29 16:17             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-29 17:21           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-29 17:44             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29 17:50               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29 18:08               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-29 18:11                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29 18:23                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-29 18:31                   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-29 18:39                   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-29 18:44                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 11:23                       ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-30 12:32                         ` [PATCH -v3] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 12:38                           ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-30 12:48                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 12:55                               ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-30 12:56                                 ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-30 13:00                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 13:02                           ` [PATCH -v4] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-30 14:51                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30 16:04                           ` [PATCH -v3] " Linus Torvalds
2009-01-30 16:16                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-31  8:44                               ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-29 18:49                 ` [PATCH -v2] " Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30  1:55                 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-29 17:47             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-29 17:55               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-29 18:08                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-30  1:11           ` Rusty Russell

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