From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:48:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080715214819.GA23588@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487D0719.9000503@goop.org>
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, it falls back to allocating the
> data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call.
>
> Make sure we actually wait in this case.
cool, thanks!
does this explain the xen64 weirdnesses you've been seeing?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 20:22 [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-15 21:48 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-07-15 22:01 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-18 22:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 22:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2008-07-06 14:50 Generic callfunction IPI problems Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-06 16:03 ` [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-06 17:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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