Re: [PATCH]: xen: fix too early kmalloc call

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: xen: fix too early kmalloc call
> 
> From: Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx> 
> 
> Impact: fixes bootup of xen.
> 
> Christophe reported the following problem:
> 
> >  (basically it seems that SLAB is not yet up, with earlyprintk it is
> >  giving me an Oops in __kmalloc before)
> 
> Replace call to kmalloc with alloc_bootmem.
> 
> Also from Christophe:
> > (me)
> > > Or I could copy the text and submit it as a new patch?
> >
> > Yes, I would prefer that.  Also, my commit message was not really
> > following Kernel standards and it's only a very simple change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>

i've applied the fix to tip/cpus4096, in the form below.

Please submit clean log messages. Your commit description was confused - 
the patch is From: Christophe, but the message talks about Christophe in 
the third person. Also, it included conversational bits that have no 
value for the Git history.

	Ingo

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