Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

[Nick Piggin]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:45:27PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 12:27 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Init code doesn't deserve to be more lazy than anybody else, and
> > part of the reason why such a core piece of code is so crufty
> > is exactly because people have been lazy there.
> 
> I think the main problem isn't necessarily init code per se, but the
> pile of -common- code that can be called both at init time and later.

Just seems bogus argument. Everwhere else that does this (ie.
allocations that are called from multiple allocation contexts)
passes correct gfp flags down.

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