linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

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Message-ID: <4A302075.7060501@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:07:01 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, hannes@...xchg.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	npiggin@...e.de, yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

Hi Ingo,

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>> What kind of conflicts are there against -tip? The diffstat 
>>>> suggests it's mostly in-SLAB code, right? There shouldnt be 
>>>> much to conflict, except kmemcheck - which has more or less 
>>>> trivial callbacks there.
>>> The conflicting bits are the patches that remove bootmem 
>>> allocator uses in arch/x86 and kernel/sched.c.
>> Give me an hour and i'll get some minimal testing done.
> 
> This tree doesnt conflict (not even with kmecheck) - and the older 
> bits you sent against the scheduler and against x86 doesnt apply 
> anymore - but they do look scary.

Btw, yeah, it doesn't conflict because I dropped the problematic patches 
and did the bootmem fallback instead.

But now you know why I tried to push all this to -tip. Your tree is 
moving so fast that it's difficult to generate patches that apply to 
both, -tip and mainline, in this particular area :-).

			Pekka
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