lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Jul]   [6]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallback
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, smp_call_function_mask falls back
> to allocating the data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call.
>
> Make sure we actually wait in this case.

Unfortunately this doesn't solve my crash, though it may account for
some of them.

The oops I'm looking at at the moment is a NULL pointer on ->next of the
rcu list in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt()...

J


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-07-06 19:25    [W:0.372 / U:0.004 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site