linux-kernel - Re: rcu_init allocation failure trace on bootup

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Date:	Mon, 6 May 2013 17:56:29 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rcu_init allocation failure trace on bootup

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:02:49PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

 > >  > You are quite right, I am getting ahead of myself.  Please see below
 > >  > for the patch.
 > > 
 > > Doesn't fix it for me.
 > > 
 > > Is it this one instead perhaps ?
 > > 
 > >   89 #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
 > >   90         if (!have_rcu_nocb_mask) {
 > >   91                 alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask);
 > >   92                 have_rcu_nocb_mask = true;
 > >   93         }
 > 
 > Hmmm...  That was in fact the one that the patch was intended to change.
 > Just out of curiosity, where did the patch apply instead?

I think this might be my screwup. I did it by hand, and misapplied it
to the top of rcu_nocb_setup() instead.

	Dave



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