Badness on the Warp

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jun 22 08:25:04 EST 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:20 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> The WARN_ON() is there to let us know that someone is doing a bootmem
> allocation but the slab allocator is already up. So the proper fix
> here is to use kmalloc() directly in the call-site that triggers this
> WARN_ON. I'm cc'ing Ben as he has been taking care of the fall-out
> from my patches on ppc.
> 
Right, our interrupt controllers need those fixes, they are low
on my priority list since it's a reasonably harmless warning and I'm
still chasing some actual breakage (though maybe not directly related to
your patches).

Kumar already submitted a couple, Frans, feel free to beat me
at converting UIC (just use kmalloc directly in there instead
of alloc_bootmem).

Cheers,
Ben.




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