linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:26:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, mingo@...e.hu, mpm@...enic.com,
	npiggin@...e.de, yinghai@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early boot SLAB for 2.6.31

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> > This function is also called later when kmalloc caches are
> > created on demand.
>
> Where? AFAICT, only kmem_cache_init() calls the function.

Right. I thought dma_kmalloc_cache would also call this but it open codes
create_kmalloc_cache due to the need to trylock on slub_lock.


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