From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, clameter@sgi.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
pstaszewski@artcom.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bunk@kernel.org, protasnb@gmail.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:59:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803281247270.14670@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803281232450.14670@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> It would be better if we actually passed in the gfp_flags, and then we
> could test the __GFP_HIGH bit rather than the page address. But for now,
> the rule is that GFP_ATOMIC and __GFP_ZERO do not work together, because
> this sanity test currently cannot work for that case.
Gaah. Sadly, we don't actually have any reasonably sane way of doing that.
So I guess we'll have to lose the coverage of kmap_atomic() in other
places, even though the only case where this was worth losing it for was
that one clear_highpage() call site :/
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-28 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 22:53 Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 0:18 ` Carlos R. Mafra
2008-03-28 0:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 2:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 3:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-28 4:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 10:48 ` Paweł Staszewski
2008-03-28 17:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-28 21:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 17:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-28 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 18:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-28 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 18:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-28 18:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-28 18:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-28 19:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-03-28 19:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-28 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 18:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-28 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 18:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-28 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-29 20:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-29 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-29 23:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-31 18:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-31 18:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-28 3:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-31 10:14 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-31 12:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 11:29 ` Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-03-28 16:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 16:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 17:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-28 20:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 22:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-31 13:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 10:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-28 10:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-28 11:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-28 11:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-28 11:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-28 11:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-28 16:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 17:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-28 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 22:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-28 16:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-28 16:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-28 18:57 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-28 22:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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