From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:15:00 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Prevent dereferencing non-allocated per_cpu variables In-Reply-To: <20071127151241.038c146d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20071127215052.090968000@sgi.com> <20071127215054.660250000@sgi.com> <20071127221628.GG24223@one.firstfloor.org> <20071127151241.038c146d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen , travis@sgi.com, ak@suse.de, pageexec@freemail.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > hm. Has anyone any evidence that we're actually touching > not-possible-cpu's memory here? I saw it in acpi when the __cpu_offset() pointers become zero. I have never seen it in vmstat.c. We do not need the vmstat.c fix. -- 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