[PATCH] xen: fix too early kmalloc call

From: Christophe Saout
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 14:46:23 EST


Impact: fix bootup crash on xen guests

SLAB is not yet up, with earlyprintk it is giving me an Oops in __kmalloc.

Replace call to kmalloc() with alloc_bootmem().

Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/xen/events.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
index ed7527b..3141e14 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/events.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/irq.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/bootmem.h>

#include <asm/ptrace.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
@@ -831,8 +832,8 @@ void __init xen_init_IRQ(void)
int i;
size_t size = nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct cpu_evtchn_s);

- cpu_evtchn_mask_p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(cpu_evtchn_mask == NULL);
+ cpu_evtchn_mask_p = alloc_bootmem(size);
+ BUG_ON(cpu_evtchn_mask_p == NULL);

init_evtchn_cpu_bindings();

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