On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote:

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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > > I didn't know if that was a debugging patch for me or if you wanted to
> > > push that as part of your series, I'm not sure if you actually need to
> > > move it to kmem_cache_init() now that slub_state is protected by
> > > slub_lock.  I'm not sure if we want to allocate DMA objects between
> > > kmem_cache_init() and kmem_cache_init_late().
> >
> > Drivers may allocate dma buffers during initialization.
> >
>
> Ok, I moved the DMA cache creation from kmem_cache_init_late() to
> kmem_cache_init().  Note: the kasprintf() will need to use GFP_NOWAIT and
> not GFP_KERNEL now.

ok. I have revised the patch since there is also a problem with the
indirection on kmalloc_caches.


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