Re: Badness on the Warp

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Jun 21 2009 - 18:57:52 EST


On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:36 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:25:04 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Right, our interrupt controllers need those fixes, they are low
> > on my priority list since it's a reasonably harmless warning and I'm
> > still chasing some actual breakage (though maybe not directly related
> > to your patches).
> >
> > Kumar already submitted a couple, Frans, feel free to beat me
> > at converting UIC (just use kmalloc directly in there instead
> > of alloc_bootmem).
>
> I can make the changes to UIC if you want. They badness is harmless (it
> ends up calling kzalloc anyway), but hard to explain to our PV (Product
> Verification) department that they can ignore what looks like a crash ;)

Heh, right, but hopefully we should have that fixed before .31 is
out :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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