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?
next prev parent 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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