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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

yeah, it was in a late -rc, and solved rare crashes that you 
reported.

	Ingo
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