From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UV: memory allocation at initialization
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:17:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027131739.GE25371@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Kt949-0000LU-0z@eag09.americas.sgi.com>
* Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> wrote:
> From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
>
> UV initialization is currently called too late to call alloc_bootmem_pages().
> The current sequence is:
>
> start_kernel()
> mem_init()
> free_all_bootmem() <--- discard of bootmem
> rest_init()
> kernel_init()
> smp_prepare_cpus()
> native_smp_prepare_cpus()
> uv_system_init() <--- uses alloc_bootmem_pages()
>
> It should be calling kmalloc().
>
> Diffed against 2.6.27 (linux-next)
>
> Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Cliff!
Ingo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-23 22:54 Cliff Wickman
2008-10-27 13:17 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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