From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 29 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:27:41 +0200 Message-ID: <200807302127.42148.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20080729172337.b3d74100.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080730090650.79a5a749@kopernikus.site> <20080730021947.def99edc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.189]:4426 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754644AbYG3TqI (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:46:08 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so131605fkq.5 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:46:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080730021947.def99edc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Bernhard Walle , Greg KH , Hugh Dickins , Greg KH , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Dave Hansen 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). Thanks!