Re: [PATCH]: xen: fix too early kmalloc call

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
>> Subject: xen: fix too early kmalloc call
>>
>> From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> 
>>
>> Impact: fixes bootup of xen.
>>
>> Christophe reported the following problem:
>>
>>>  (basically it seems that SLAB is not yet up, with earlyprintk it is
>>>  giving me an Oops in __kmalloc before)
>> Replace call to kmalloc with alloc_bootmem.
>>
>> Also from Christophe:
>>> (me)
>>>> Or I could copy the text and submit it as a new patch?
>>> Yes, I would prefer that.  Also, my commit message was not really
>>> following Kernel standards and it's only a very simple change.
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> 
> i've applied the fix to tip/cpus4096, in the form below.
> 
> Please submit clean log messages. Your commit description was confused - 
> the patch is From: Christophe, but the message talks about Christophe in 
> the third person. Also, it included conversational bits that have no 
> value for the Git history.
> 
> 	Ingo

Ahh, ok, will do.  I wasn't sure how many "liberties" we can take in
submitting/changing something from someone else.

THanks,
Mike

> 
> -------------------->
>>From 28e08861b9afab4168b758fb7b95aa7a4da0f668 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:46:23 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] xen: fix too early kmalloc call
> 
> Impact: fix bootup crash on xen guests
> 
> SLAB is not yet up, with earlyprintk it is giving me an Oops in __kmalloc.
> 
> Replace call to kmalloc() with alloc_bootmem().
> 
> Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
>  drivers/xen/events.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
> index ed7527b..3141e14 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/events.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>  #include <linux/irq.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
> +#include <linux/bootmem.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/ptrace.h>
>  #include <asm/irq.h>
> @@ -831,8 +832,8 @@ void __init xen_init_IRQ(void)
>  	int i;
>  	size_t size = nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct cpu_evtchn_s);
>  
> -	cpu_evtchn_mask_p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	BUG_ON(cpu_evtchn_mask == NULL);
> +	cpu_evtchn_mask_p = alloc_bootmem(size);
> +	BUG_ON(cpu_evtchn_mask_p == NULL);
>  
>  	init_evtchn_cpu_bindings();
>