From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762897AbZEHPjU (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 11:39:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754748AbZEHPiq (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 11:38:46 -0400 Received: from smtp3.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]:46947 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323AbZEHPip (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 11:38:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:28:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@qirst.com To: Pekka Enberg cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, gorcunov@openvz.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, rientjes@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] SLUB: Use GFP_PANIC for early-boot allocations In-Reply-To: <1241795429.28600.61.camel@penberg-laptop> Message-ID: References: <1241795429.28600.61.camel@penberg-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 8 May 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > This patch converts SLUB early-boot code to use GFP_PANIC instead of explicit > BUG_ON() calls. Yirks this is not only early boot code. create_unique_id may be executed whenever a slab is created.