Regression on UP ARM from commit e18d65f0500b95d8724b17d8ea9f1116cf390bbe

Pekka Enberg penberg at cs.helsinki.fi
Tue Sep 14 01:49:44 EDT 2010


On 9/13/10 4:58 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> commit e18d65f0500b95d8724b17d8ea9f1116cf390bbe
>> "slub: Remove static kmem_cache_cpu array for boot"
>> made my ARM 926 UP system hang at boot, if I revert this (have
>> to back out a lot of SLUB patches for that) it comes back up. (Same if I
>> switch to SLAB.)
>>
>> Any hints on how I can get patch around this in a nice way?
>
> This is UP right? Any more details on this one? Does ARM have
> earlyprintk?
>
> Tejun also has some patches that make the percpu allocator work on UP so
> that we do not need the hack (you must have the hack which is commit
> c23e5ad729ac43f5e2fbc080f94cf61f07b4d45f as well to make UP work right!).
>
> I am not sure if they are already in -next though.

Yes, they should be in linux-next. I haven't pulled the changes to 
slab.git, though. Linus, do things work in linux-next if you revert 
commit 5249d039500f05a5ab379286b1d23ab9b04d3f2c ("Slub: UP bandaid")?

			Pekka



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