Re: [13/18] x86_64: Allow fallback for the stack

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:25 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The order-1 allocation failures where GFP_ATOMIC, because SLUB uses !0
> > order for everything.
> 
> slub is wrong then. Can it be fixed?

I think mainline slub doesn't do this, just -mm.

See DEFAULT_MAX_ORDER in mm/slub.c

> > Kernel stack allocation is GFP_KERNEL I presume. 
> 
> Of course.
> 
> > Also, I use 4k stacks on all my machines.
> 
> You don't have any x86-64 machines?

Ah, my bad, yes I do, but I (wrongly) thought they had that option too.

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