From: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linas@austin.ibm.com, paulus@au1.ibm.com,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc64-dev <linuxppc64-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:02:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E30E50.3040401@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088621248.1920.43.camel@gaston>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> So instead, the problem can be easily
>>avoided by not using a global buffer. The code below mallocs/frees.
>>Its not perf-critcal, so I don't mind malloc overhead. Would this
>>work for you? Patch attached below.
>
>
> I prefer that, but couldn't we move the kmalloc outside of the spinlock
> and so use GFP_KERNEL instead ?
Isn't the global buffer used since it's in BSS, and as such, in low
memory, guaranteed to be below 4GB? RTAS has limitations that restricts
any passed-in buffers to be addressable as 32-bit real mode pointers, right?
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-30 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-29 22:50 [PATCH] PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log linas
2004-06-30 1:17 ` David Gibson
2004-06-30 16:58 ` linas
2004-06-30 1:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-30 17:36 ` linas
2004-06-30 18:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-30 19:02 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2004-06-30 19:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-30 20:31 ` [PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log (third-times-a-charm?) linas
2004-06-30 11:27 ` [PATCH] PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log Paul Mackerras
2004-06-30 17:50 ` linas
2004-06-30 23:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-07-01 16:31 ` Jake Moilanen
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