From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:55:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081110015511.453a801e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110094033.GL22392@elte.hu>
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:40:33 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > >> @@ -987,6 +988,8 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
> > >>
> > >> set_highmem_pages_init();
> > >>
> > >> + after_bootmem = 1;
> > >
> > > this hack can go away once we have a proper percpu_alloc() that can be
> > > used early enough.
> >
> > where is that fancy patch? current percpu_alloc(), will keep big
> > pointer in array..., instead of put that pointer in percpu_area
> >
> > 64bit has that after_bootmem already.
>
> or at least introduce a "bootmem agnostic" allocator instead of
> open-coding the after_bootmem flag.
>
> Something like:
>
> early_kzalloc()
>
> ?
>
> Andrew, any preferences?
My mind reading ain't what it was, and this after_bootmem flag is
write-only in this patch.
So what's all this about?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-10 9:55 UTC|newest]
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2008-11-09 7:05 ` [RFC PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq Yinghai Lu
2008-11-09 7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-09 8:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-10 9:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 9:51 ` [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v10 Yinghai Lu
2008-11-10 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 9:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-10 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 9:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-10 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq Yinghai Lu
2008-11-10 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 10:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-10 10:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 19:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-11 6:28 ` [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v11 Yinghai Lu
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[not found] ` <20081112120814.GG11352@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 7:01 ` [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13 Yinghai Lu
2008-11-13 9:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-13 20:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-13 20:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-13 21:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-13 21:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-13 22:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-13 22:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-13 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-13 22:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-13 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-13 23:15 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-13 23:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-14 0:20 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-14 0:29 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-14 6:29 ` [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v14 Yinghai Lu
2008-11-14 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-15 9:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-13 22:19 ` [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13 Paul Mackerras
2008-11-13 22:23 ` David Miller
2008-11-13 23:11 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-13 23:14 ` David Miller
2008-11-14 0:15 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-14 0:21 ` David Miller
2008-11-14 0:39 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-14 2:37 ` David Miller
2008-11-14 3:06 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-16 20:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-16 23:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-16 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-16 23:54 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-16 23:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 0:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-17 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 0:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-17 0:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 0:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-17 1:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 2:03 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-17 4:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-17 4:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-17 20:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-11-17 4:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-17 4:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-17 1:51 ` Mike Travis
2008-11-17 4:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 4:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-17 4:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-17 6:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-11-09 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-09 7:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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