linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: Fix a typo in config name

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:16:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Fix a typo in config name

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Li Zefan wrote:
> 
> > There's no config named SLAB_DEBUG, and it should be a typo
> > of SLUB_DEBUG.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> > ---
> >
> > not slub expert, don't know how this bug affects slub debugging.
> 
> Affects the bootstrap code.
> 

I don't see how, there should be no partial or full slabs for either 
kmem_cache or kmem_cache_node at this point in the boot sequence.  I think 
kmem_cache_bootstrap_fixup() should only need to add the cache to the list 
of slab caches and set the refcount accordingly.
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