linux-kernel - Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence

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Message-Id: <1244797533.30512.35.camel@penberg-laptop>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:05:33 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 18:53 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Now, if you find it a bit too ugly, feel free to rename smellybits to
> something else and create an accessor function for setting what bits are
> masked out, but I still believe that the basic idea behind my patch is
> saner than yours :-)

It's not the naming I object to but the mechanism because I think is
open for abuse (think smelly driver playing tricks with it). So I do
think my patch is the sanest solution here. ;-)

Nick? Christoph?

			Pekka

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