Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:40:02PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I think you should BUG() if a module calls kmalloc_percpu() outside
> of mod->init(), this is actually implementable.
> 
> Andrew's example with some module doing kmalloc_percpu() inside
> of fops->open() is just rediculious.

The disk stats are already per-cpu. So, what happens when you offline/online
a disk ? How do you allocate per-cpu memory during that ?

Thanks
Dipankar