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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	kmannth@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	clameter@engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:56:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060922115646.fd1040e8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609221141270.8356@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I think I preferred my earlier fix, recently reworked as:
> 
> The problem is though that the pcp pointers must point to the static pcp 
> arrays for bootup to succeed under NUMA. Your patch may work under SMP. 
> For NUMA you may zap pointers to valid static pcps.

This is unclear to me.  Do you mean "the pcps must be usable during
process_zones()'s call to kmalloc_node())" or do you mean "the pcps must
always be usable" (in which case more work needs to be done) or what?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-22 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22  0:17 [BUG] i386 2.6.18 cpu_up: attempt to bring up CPU 4 failed : kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2698! keith mannthey
2006-09-22  0:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22  1:34   ` keith mannthey
2006-09-22  2:09     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-09-22  2:24     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-09-22  3:08       ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22  3:30         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-09-22  3:38           ` David Rientjes
2006-09-22  3:42           ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22  3:46           ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22  4:09             ` David Rientjes
2006-09-22 18:20               ` [PATCH] do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset David Rientjes
2006-09-22 18:22                 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 18:39                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22 18:43                   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 18:56                     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-09-22 19:06                       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-22 19:10                         ` David Rientjes
2006-09-22 19:44               ` [BUG] i386 2.6.18 cpu_up: attempt to bring up CPU 4 failed : kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2698! keith mannthey
2006-09-23  5:19                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22  2:31     ` keith mannthey

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