From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:21:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4870FF28.80904@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4870ECBA.7050901@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, smp_call_function_mask falls back
> to allocating the data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call.
>
> Make sure we actually wait in this case.
Unfortunately this doesn't solve my crash, though it may account for
some of them.
The oops I'm looking at at the moment is a NULL pointer on ->next of the
rcu list in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt()...
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-06 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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2008-07-15 20:22 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-15 21:48 ` Ingo Molnar
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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