mm: slab-allocate memory section nodemask for large systems
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:59:46 +0000 (17:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:53:20 +0000 (08:53 -0800)
commit9ae49fab239fb49de92a657c7426271e0793c4e1
tree156f78df3db4dbc408f6839febe7adba148c2c9f
parentcaed0f486e582eeeb6e3546417fd758230fe4ad9
mm: slab-allocate memory section nodemask for large systems

Nodemasks should not be allocated on the stack for large systems (when it
is larger than 256 bytes) since there is a threat of overflow.

This patch causes the unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() nodemask to be
allocated on the stack for smaller systems and be allocated by slab for
larger systems.

GFP_KERNEL is used since remove_memory_block() can block.

Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/base/node.c