linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.33-rc6] idr: revert misallocation bug fix

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Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:58:24 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.33-rc6] idr: revert misallocation bug fix

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:57 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Commit 859ddf09743a8cc680af33f7259ccd0fd36bfe9d tried to fix
> misallocation bug but broke full bit marking by not clearing
> pa[idp->layers] and also is causing X failures due to lookup failure
> in drm code.  The cause of the latter hasn't been found yet.  Revert
> the fix for now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Bah.  I just ran into and bisected the X startup problem. :)

Let me know when you have a proper fix.  I can test on my machine for
you.

-- Dave

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