Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932757AbZFLJFy (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:05:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759622AbZFLJFd (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:05:33 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:54707 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756280AbZFLJFc (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:05:32 -0400 Subject: Re: slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence From: Pekka Enberg To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel list , linux-mm , mingo@elte.hu, cl@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de In-Reply-To: <1244796837.7172.95.camel@pasglop> References: <200906111959.n5BJxFj9021205@hera.kernel.org> <1244770230.7172.4.camel@pasglop> <1244779009.7172.52.camel@pasglop> <1244780756.7172.58.camel@pasglop> <1244783235.7172.61.camel@pasglop> <1244792079.7172.74.camel@pasglop> <1244792745.30512.13.camel@penberg-laptop> <1244796045.7172.82.camel@pasglop> <1244796211.30512.32.camel@penberg-laptop> <1244796837.7172.95.camel@pasglop> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:05:33 +0300 Message-Id: <1244797533.30512.35.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 19 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/