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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 13:28 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> If a couple of specialised early boot code places have
> to test slab_is_available() to prevent crap leaking into
> our main allocators, then that's quite fine by me.

slab_is_available() will not fix the problem in that case. In fact,
 existing tests of slab_is_available() have been broken because they
assumed that when it was true, then GFP_KERNEL would work.

Ben.


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