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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 11:00:17 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, clameter@....com,
	mpm@...enic.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch
 added to -mm tree

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:02:29 +1000
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>BTW, we _really_ should be doing RCU properly in slob, because you
>>technically can't noop RCU on UP (even though the current users may be
>>safe...).
>>
>>Patch attached to do that.
> 
> 
> Does it work?

That one booted my desktop (very slowly) but as Matt pointed out, it broke
alignment on RCU slabs. The last version I posted should work and has the
alignment problem fixed. I can retest and resubmit it to you if you like,
I was just waiting on an ack from Matt.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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