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 143AD8D0040 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by yws5 with SMTP id 5so182250yws.14 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:29:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110324192712.GA7156@elte.hu> References: <20110324142146.GA11682@elte.hu> <20110324172653.GA28507@elte.hu> <20110324192712.GA7156@elte.hu> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:29:06 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1 From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Lameter , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org, npiggin@kernel.dk, rientjes@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> >From dd1534455196d2a8f6c9c912db614e59986c9f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Pekka Enberg >> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:59:35 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] x86: Early boot alternative instructions > > hm, patch is whitespace damaged. > > Also, the fix looks rather intrusive. > > Could we please disable the lockless slub code first and then do everything > with proper testing and re-enable the lockless code *after* we know that the > alternatives fixup change is robust, etc? That way there's no rush needed. > > There's a lot of code that could break from tweaking the alternatives code. Just ignore this patch. As explained by Christoph, if alternative_io() was the issue, we'd see the crash in kmem_cache_alloc(). -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org