From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886A06B0099 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:26:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <84144f020911241259r3a604b29yb59902655ec03a20@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091118181202.GA12180@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <84144f020911192249l6c7fa495t1a05294c8f5b6ac8@mail.gmail.com> <1258709153.11284.429.camel@laptop> <84144f020911200238w3d3ecb38k92ca595beee31de5@mail.gmail.com> <1258714328.11284.522.camel@laptop> <4B067816.6070304@cs.helsinki.fi> <1258729748.4104.223.camel@laptop> <1259002800.5630.1.camel@penberg-laptop> <20091124162311.GA8679@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <84144f020911241259r3a604b29yb59902655ec03a20@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:26:30 +0100 Message-ID: <1259097990.4531.1843.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, mpm@selenic.com, LKML , Nick Piggin List-ID: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:59 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Thanks! Please let me know when you're hammered it enough :-). Peter, > may I have your ACK or NAK on the patch, please? Well, I'm not going to NAK it, for I think it does clean up that recursion crap a little, but it should have more merit that side-stepping lockdep. If you too feel it make SLAB ever so slightly more palatable then ACK, otherwise I'm perfectly fine with letting SLAB bitrot. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org