Re: BUG in shared_policy_replace() ?

[Steve Longerbeam <stevel@mvista.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:59:16AM -0800, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
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>>Andi Kleen wrote:
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>>>>yeah, 2.6.10 makes sense to me too. But I'm working in -mm2, and
>>>>the new2 = NULL line is missing, hence my initial confusion. Trivial
>>>>patch to -mm2 attached. Just want to make sure it has been, or will be,
>>>>put back in.
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>>>That sounds weird. Can you figure out which patch in mm removes it?
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>>found it:
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>>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10/2.6.10-mm1/broken-out/mempolicy-optimization.patch
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>Are you sure? I don't see it touching the new2 free at the end of the function.
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it's not touching the new2 free, it's removing the new2 = NULL which is 
the problem.

-				new2 = NULL;



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