Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c -bisected
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 12:15:31 EST
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
> I have only tested this on ia64, but it boots, so it's obviously
> perfect<tm> :-)
Well, it probably boots because it doesn't really seem to _change_ much of
anything.
Things like this:
-static inline void arch_send_call_function_ipi(cpumask_t mask)
+static inline void arch_send_call_function_ipi(cpumask_t *mask)
{
- smp_ops.send_call_func_ipi(mask);
+ smp_ops.send_call_func_ipi(*mask);
}
will still do that stack allocation at the time of the call. You'd have to
pass the thing all the way down as a pointer..
Linus
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