linux-ext4 - Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:20:41 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	arjan@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>> I'll test it; it'd be great if it did, I'm um, a bit ashamed at how I
>> fixed it ;)
> 
> Isnt the problem that the slab allocator did not align something that
> you did not request to be aligned?

Well, maybe that's all I needed.  At the risk of exposing myself to
ridicule, here's the commit:

7fcba054373d5dfc43d26e243a5c9b92069972ee

Was there a better way?

-Eric
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