From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
cl@linux-foundation.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, yinghai@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:01:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906170853580.16802@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090617074719.GB26664@wotan.suse.de>
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> In some cases perhaps it is difficult. In others it should be
> pretty natural. Lots of memory allocating paths pass gfp
> a long way down the stack.
I agree that some cases would be pretty natural. In fact, that's what we
started out doing. On the x86 side, we didn't have a lot of issues in
testing, and we fixed them up by using GFP_NOWAIT (see for example
cpupri_init() in kernel/sched_cpupri.c, or init_irq_default_affinity() in
kernel/irq/handle.c - both of which were fixed up in that phase).
Those paths, in fact, in general already had "bootmem" flags etc. And x86
doesn't need to initialize a lot of state at bootup.
Then Ben happened, and crazy PPC ioremap crap.
So the problem is exactly that it was perfectly natural to pass down a gfp
or other flag in _some_ cases. And then in a few cases it's much more
painful.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-17 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 13:25 [GIT PULL] " Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 13:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-12 13:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-12 14:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-12 16:16 ` [GIT PULL v2] " Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-12 17:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-12 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 6:46 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 9:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 9:38 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 14:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-14 7:12 ` Pekka J Enberg
2009-06-15 14:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 14:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 15:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 15:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 16:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-15 18:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 15:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-15 8:18 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-06-15 8:26 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 8:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 8:52 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 9:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 10:20 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-06-15 10:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 10:31 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 10:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 9:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 9:41 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 9:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 9:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 9:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 9:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-15 10:27 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 10:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 11:23 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 12:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-06-15 13:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-16 4:57 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16 5:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 5:36 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16 15:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-16 15:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 21:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 4:46 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16 5:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 5:29 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-16 18:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-17 7:47 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-17 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-06-17 16:17 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-17 21:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 10:12 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 10:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-15 11:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 11:28 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 11:38 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 4:42 ` Nick Piggin
2009-06-15 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 15:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-16 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 19:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-16 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 19:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-06-17 5:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-17 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-18 2:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-18 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-18 6:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-06-18 8:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 21:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-16 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-16 22:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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