linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] debugobjects: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate when initializing

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Message-ID: <20120401021706.GA21615@zhy>
Date:	Sun, 1 Apr 2012 10:17:06 +0800
From:	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@...il.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugobjects: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate when
 initializing

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 05:22:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> During the init stage, we have only 1 cpu and run with IRQs disabled,

debug_objects_mem_init() is called after local_irq_enable() in
start_kernel()

> we can't allocate with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> This also fixes the related warning on boot.

Not sure how you get that.

Thanks,
Yong


> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
> ---
>  lib/debugobjects.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/debugobjects.c b/lib/debugobjects.c
> index 0ab9ae8..ece5e06 100644
> --- a/lib/debugobjects.c
> +++ b/lib/debugobjects.c
> @@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ static int __init debug_objects_replace_static_objects(void)
>  	int i, cnt = 0;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < ODEBUG_POOL_SIZE; i++) {
> -		obj = kmem_cache_zalloc(obj_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		obj = kmem_cache_zalloc(obj_cache, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  		if (!obj)
>  			goto free;
>  		hlist_add_head(&obj->node, &objects);
> -- 
> 1.7.8.5
> 
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