Re: [PATCH 2/4] generic-smp: remove kmalloc usage

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) has been in kernel/smp.c for about half 
> a year, since:
>
>  |  commit 3d4422332711ef48ef0f132f1fcbfcbd56c7f3d1
>  |  Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  |  Date:   Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200
>  |  Subject: [PATCH] Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls
>
> Which introduced kernel/smp.c to begin with. It got merged on 
> July 15.
>   

The kmalloc to resolve the stack lifetime vs rcu bug is more recent than 
that - around August, I think.

   J
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