linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] scheduler/misc fixes

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:04:21 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler/misc fixes


* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> Please also add the trivial regression fix I posted to you earlier, 
> included again below, you seem to be selectively reading email from me 
> and missing bug fix patches in the process.
> 
> sched: Use alloc_bootmem() instead of alloc_bootmem_low()

thanks David, i queued your fix up.

should we perhaps make alloc_bootmem_low() generate a warning instead of 
breaking the bootup? Especially on systems that have no physical RAM 
below 4GB at all the whole notion of 'lowmem' is meaningless.

	Ingo
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