Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:30:05 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] mm/slub: fix a BUG_ON() when offlining a memory node and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is on |
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > This suggests that a call to early_kmem_cache_node_alloc was not needed > > because the per node structure already existed. Lets fix that instead. > > Perhaps by just having one API for users to call? It seems odd to force users > to figure out whether they are called before some magic time during boot > and use the "early...()" call. Shouldn't we hide this sort of detail from them?
The early_ calls are internal to the allocator and not exposed to the user.
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