linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] bootmem: use slab if bootmem is no longer available

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906102056530.28361@melkki.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:57:21 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
cc:	cl@...ux-foundation.com, mingo@...e.hu, hannes@...xchg.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mpm@...enic.com, npiggin@...e.de,
	yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] bootmem: use slab if bootmem is no longer available

From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

As a preparation for initializing the slab allocator early, make sure the
bootmem allocator does not crash and burn if someone calls it after slab is up;
otherwise we'd need a flag day for switching to early slab.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
---
 mm/bootmem.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
index daf9271..457269c 100644
--- a/mm/bootmem.c
+++ b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -532,6 +532,9 @@ static void * __init alloc_arch_preferred_bootmem(bootmem_data_t *bdata,
 					unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 					unsigned long goal, unsigned long limit)
 {
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
+		return kzalloc(size, GFP_NOWAIT);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
 	bootmem_data_t *p_bdata;
 
-- 
1.6.0.4

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