On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:04:13 -0400
Martin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a fix to the pgtable_quicklist code. There is a GFP_KERNEL
> allocation in pgtable_quicklist_alloc(), which spews the usual warnings
> if the kernel is under heavy VM pressure and the reclaim code is
> invoked.
>
> This patch is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm2
I think you should really drop the preempt disable during this allocation
instead, that's what we do in the sparc64 quicklist code.
It's very simple, change the code to:
preempt_enable();
} else {
preempt_enable();
ret = (unsigned long *) ...;
}
/* preempt_enable() no longer here */
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