Re: [PATCH] generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failurefallback

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 17:48:49 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, it falls back to allocating the
> data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call.
>
> Make sure we actually wait in this case.

cool, thanks!

does this explain the xen64 weirdnesses you've been seeing?

Ingo
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