Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755687AbZFOLjM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:39:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755063AbZFOLis (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:38:48 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35234 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754324AbZFOLir (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:38:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:38:48 +0200 From: Nick Piggin To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Pekka Enberg , Heiko Carstens , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, mingo@elte.hu, yinghai@kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31 Message-ID: <20090615113848.GA23377@wotan.suse.de> References: <20090615081831.GA5411@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <84144f020906150210w7fa29042xc12efb4a087e3d26@mail.gmail.com> <20090615094148.GC1314@wotan.suse.de> <1245059476.12400.7.camel@pasglop> <20090615101254.GB10294@wotan.suse.de> <1245062388.12400.17.camel@pasglop> <20090615112205.GA6012@wotan.suse.de> <20090615112827.GC6012@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090615112827.GC6012@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 26 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:28:28PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:22:05PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:39:48PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > But I won't live with having it shit in our nice core code... > > Well, at least I won't throw up my hands and give up this > > early. > > Just the principle, btw. I have the same opinion for suspend/resume too, although in that case I know less about the issues and if we found that it indeed does make a random driver writers life easier[*] then it might be a reason to do this. But I still don't think that would give boot code a license to just revert back to "I don't know or care, GFP_KERNEL pelase" [*] and note that being unaware of your context I don't think is making life easier automatically. -- 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/