Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755332AbZJ2PUO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:20:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755299AbZJ2PUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:20:11 -0400 Received: from smtp2.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.253]:51449 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755195AbZJ2PUI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:20:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:18:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@V090114053VZO-1 To: Tejun Heo cc: Jiri Kosina , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Ingo Molnar , Jeff Mahoney , "Luck, Tony" , Peter Zijlstra , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [Bug #14467] Linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096 In-Reply-To: <4AE9B090.9090107@kernel.org> Message-ID: References: <6dRYo8ss7vL.A.nnF.Cre5KB@chimera> <4AE9AB23.8010207@kernel.org> <4AE9B090.9090107@kernel.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 19 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Tejun Heo wrote: > That would be nice but currently, we have no user which needs anything > other than GFP_KERNEL although lack of users could have been caused by > the lack of the functionality and the non-atomic irq disabled state is > an exception case which is handled differently by might_sleep() too. > So, I'm not sure whether adding GFP_* parameter would worth the > effort. Also, adding that is a bit too late for 2.6.32 at this point. As I have said repeately before: We need this for dynamic DMA slab creation in SLUB. Since you got it already halfway in: Complete it and I can get rid of the static percpu definitions that I had to add to be able to use the new percpu allocator. -- 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/