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Christoph Lameter b5637e65ee i386: use page allocator to allocate thread_info structure
i386 uses kmalloc to allocate the threadinfo structure assuming that the
allocations result in a page sized aligned allocation.  That has worked so
far because SLAB exempts page sized slabs from debugging and aligns them in
special ways that goes beyond the restrictions imposed by
KMALLOC_ARCH_MINALIGN valid for other slabs in the kmalloc array.

SLUB also works fine without debugging since page sized allocations neatly
align at page boundaries.  However, if debugging is switched on then SLUB
will extend the slab with debug information.  The resulting slab is not
longer of page size.  It will only be aligned following the requirements
imposed by KMALLOC_ARCH_MINALIGN.  As a result the threadinfo structure may
not be page aligned which makes i386 fail to boot with SLUB debug on.

Replace the calls to kmalloc with calls into the page allocator.

An alternate solution may be to create a custom slab cache where the
alignment is set to PAGE_SIZE.  That would allow slub debugging to be
applied to the threadinfo structure.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
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acpi remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed 2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
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asm-generic [PATCH] i386: Clean up ELF note generation 2007-05-02 19:27:17 +02:00
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asm-i386 i386: use page allocator to allocate thread_info structure 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
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asm-ppc [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction 2007-05-02 19:27:14 +02:00
asm-s390 Introduce CONFIG_HAS_DMA 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
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asm-sparc [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction 2007-05-02 19:27:14 +02:00
asm-sparc64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -07:00
asm-um [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction 2007-05-02 19:27:14 +02:00
asm-v850 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -07:00
asm-x86_64 Revert "[PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation" 2007-05-07 08:44:24 -07:00
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crypto [CRYPTO] cryptd: Add software async crypto daemon 2007-05-02 14:38:32 +10:00
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linux readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
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media i2c: Cleanup the includes of <linux/i2c.h> 2007-05-01 23:26:29 +02:00
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net [MAC80211]: Add mac80211 wireless stack. 2007-05-05 11:45:53 -07:00
pcmcia add new_id to PCMCIA drivers 2007-05-07 12:12:50 -07:00
rdma PCI: Cleanup the includes of <linux/pci.h> 2007-05-02 19:02:35 -07:00
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