Re: irq lock inversion

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Nov 06 2009 - 11:10:42 EST


On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > My question is, why do we do flags save/restore in pcpu-alloc?
>
> That's strictly for calls from sched_init().

Right its a hack for 2.6.32. Fix it the right way by making the per cpu
allocator take gfp flags like any other allocator in the kernel.
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