Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc7

[Pekka Enberg]

On 1/31/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When do_tune_cpucache() is called at bootup, I'm not sure how safe it is
> to do the kzalloc() thing.

The kzalloc thing is safe as we have already successfully boostrapped
all kmalloc caches at that point. The per-CPU caches that are replaced
by do_tune_cpucache() point to boostrap-time array caches there (see
use of struct arraycache_init in setup_cpu_cache).
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