Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:47:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [S+Q3 00/23] SLUB: The Unified slab allocator (V3)
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote:

> I didn't know if that was a debugging patch for me or if you wanted to
> push that as part of your series, I'm not sure if you actually need to
> move it to kmem_cache_init() now that slub_state is protected by
> slub_lock.  I'm not sure if we want to allocate DMA objects between
> kmem_cache_init() and kmem_cache_init_late().

Drivers may allocate dma buffers during initialization.

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