linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback

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Message-ID: <20080715214819.GA23588@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:48:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure
	fallback


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, it falls back to allocating the 
> data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call.
>
> Make sure we actually wait in this case.

cool, thanks!

does this explain the xen64 weirdnesses you've been seeing?

	Ingo
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