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memory hotplug: fix early allocation handling
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 23 May 2008 20:04:52 +0000 (13:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 24 May 2008 16:56:12 +0000 (09:56 -0700)
commitcd94b9dbfa300fc42e45f230010623fc08d59563
treead9581e94a635032d74d3905975ebd4c39bed5f2
parent7eb54824b76793dd86afb54f182ef9aa64b3a45a
memory hotplug: fix early allocation handling

Trying to add memory via add_memory() from within an initcall function
results in

bootmem alloc of 163840 bytes failed!
Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory

This is caused by zone_wait_table_init() which uses system_state to decide
if it should use the bootmem allocator or not.

When initcalls are handled the system_state is still SYSTEM_BOOTING but
the bootmem allocator doesn't work anymore.  So the allocation will fail.

To fix this use slab_is_available() instead as indicator like we do it
everywhere else.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fix]
Reviewed-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c