Re: linux-next: Tree for July 29

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:06:50 +0200 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > * Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-07-29 21:48]:
> > > > Isn't this the opposite end of the same problem for which Bernhard
> > > > has been repeatedly trying to find a taker for his patch:
> > > > 
> > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kexec/1882
> > > 
> > > Yes.  It's not the kobject patch at fault here, it's the use of kobjects
> > > so early in the boot process.  That needs to be fixed.
> 
> It was a bit optimistic to stick an unconditional GFP_KERNEL allocation
> into the previously-atomic kobject_init().
> 
> It's only 128 bytes, so why can't we fix both problems thusly?

Fixes the bug for me (also true for previous patch from Bernhard).

Thanks!
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