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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: Badness on the Warp
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:48:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020906212148y77a05be6k8f96beb3cf31da2b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090621183658.2b408e69@lappy.seanm.ca>

Hi Sean,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Sean MacLennan<smaclennan@pikatech.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:25:04 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> Right, our interrupt controllers need those fixes, they are low
>> on my priority list since it's a reasonably harmless warning and I'm
>> still chasing some actual breakage (though maybe not directly related
>> to your patches).
>>
>> Kumar already submitted a couple, Frans, feel free to beat me
>> at converting UIC (just use kmalloc directly in there instead
>> of alloc_bootmem).
>
> I can make the changes to UIC if you want. They badness is harmless (it
> ends up calling kzalloc anyway), but hard to explain to our PV (Product
> Verification) department that they can ignore what looks like a crash ;)

Right. We can also wrap the WARN_ON() in CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM or
something too but I'd prefer a proper fix here.

                                   Pekka

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-22  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-20 19:48 Badness on the Warp Sean MacLennan
2009-06-20 20:56 ` Frans Pop
2009-06-20 23:10   ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-20 23:26     ` Frans Pop
2009-06-21  4:08       ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-06-20 23:42   ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-21  4:28     ` Frans Pop
2009-06-21 10:20       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-21 22:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-21 22:36           ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-21 22:57             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-22  4:48             ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-06-23  5:24           ` Sean MacLennan
2009-06-21  7:03   ` H. Peter Anvin

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