From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
"mpm@selenic.com" <mpm@selenic.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Morris, Donald George (HP-UX Cupertino)" <don.morris@hp.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: prevent validate_slab() error due to race condition
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:23:43 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205011522340.2091@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLGXZsq22LuNa5ef5iv7Jy0A0w_S2MbDQeBW=dFvUwFRjA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> wrote:
> > Thank for the quick response. I have no problem for moving the node-lock
> > taking into free_debug_processing. Of the 2 problems that are reported, this
> > is a more serious one and so need to be fixed sooner rather than later. For
> > the other one, we can take more time to find a better solution.
> >
> > So are you going to integrate your change to the mainline?
>
> Christoph, can you send the patch with an improved changelog that also
> explains what the problem is?
Will do so once I get back from the conference I am at.
> How far back in the stable series do we want to backport this?
This only affects slab validation when running with deubgging so I would
suggest to merge in the next cycle.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-01 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 18:57 Waiman Long
2012-04-26 19:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-26 19:20 ` Don Morris
2012-04-26 19:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-27 14:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-04-27 20:10 ` Waiman Long
2012-04-30 6:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-05-01 20:23 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205301039420.29257@router.home>
2012-05-30 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-16 7:02 ` Pekka Enberg
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