Re: [PATCH] pgtables: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation with preempt disabled

2005-04-19 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:47:58 -0400 Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, here's an updated patch. Looks great. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [PATCH] pgtables: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation with preempt disabled

2005-04-19 Thread Martin Hicks
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:30:44AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > I think you should really drop the preempt disable during this allocation > instead, that's what we do in the sparc64 quicklist code. > Okay, here's an updated patch. Hi Andrew, This is a fix to the pgtable_quicklist code.

Re: [PATCH] pgtables: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation with preempt disabled

2005-04-19 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:13 -0400 Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a fix to the pgtable_quicklist code. There is a GFP_KERNEL > allocation in pgtable_quicklist_alloc(), which spews the usual warnings > if the kernel is under heavy VM pressure and the reclaim code is > invoked. >