Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:48:32 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init: call vfs_caches_init_early() later in the boot sequence | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi Nick,
[ I see I typo'd Linus' email address in the original patch submission... ]
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:29:25PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: >> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> >> >> There's no need to call vfs_caches_init_early() before kmem_cache_init(). All >> we have to do is make sure we don't attempt to use the bootmem allocator after >> we've called mem_init().
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote: > Hmm, but you'd want to be able to allocate > MAX_ORDER areas in the linear > KVA, which the page allocator cannot do. So this is just going to silently > truncate hash table size. Nack on this one.
OK, makes sense. IIRC, Linus suggested doing this but I think I'll just revert the patch.
Pekka
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