Re: [PATCH] init: call vfs_caches_init_early() later in the boot sequence

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Nick,

[ I see I typo'd Linus' email address in the original patch submission... ]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:29:25PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> There's no need to call vfs_caches_init_early() before kmem_cache_init(). All
>> we have to do is make sure we don't attempt to use the bootmem allocator after
>> we've called mem_init().

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmm, but you'd want to be able to allocate > MAX_ORDER areas in the linear
> KVA, which the page allocator cannot do. So this is just going to silently
> truncate hash table size. Nack on this one.

OK, makes sense. IIRC, Linus suggested doing this but I think I'll
just revert the patch.

                                             Pekka
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