linux-kernel - [patch] slub: Revert "[PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM"

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 17:08:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] slub: Revert "[PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM"

On Mon, 9 May 2011, James Bottomley wrote:

> > Great, and if that works out successfully this time around I think we'll 
> > either need to fix each individual arch Kconfig that we know doesn't work 
> > well (at least parisc because of the scheduling issue) so that it at least 
> > enables CONFIG_NUMA implicitly for discontigmem unless CONFIG_BROKEN is 
> > set.
> 
> OK, I confirm that the N_NORMAL_MEMORY patch on its own fixes slub for
> us.  We can revert the mark slub BROKEN in DISCONTIGMEM && !NUMA patch.
> 

Ok, so we need to revert 4a5fa3590f09 ([PARISC] slub: fix panic with 
DISCONTIGMEM) that did not allow CONFIG_SLUB to be set for architectures 
that use DISCONTIGMEM without NUMA support unless they have CONFIG_BROKEN 
set from Linus' tree _and_ from the stable trees.

slub: Revert "[PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM"

4a5fa3590f09 ([PARISC] slub: fix panic with DISCONTIGMEM) did not allow 
SLUB to be used on architectures that use DISCONTIGMEM without compiling 
NUMA support without CONFIG_BROKEN also set.

The slub panic that it was intended to prevent is addressed by 
d9b41e0b54fd ([PARISC] set memory ranges in N_NORMAL_MEMORY when onlined) 
on parisc so there is no further slub issues with such a configuration.

This reverts the former commit so that SLUB may now be used on such 
architectures since there haven't been any reports of additional errors.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 init/Kconfig |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1226,7 +1226,6 @@ config SLAB
 	  per cpu and per node queues.

 config SLUB
-	depends on BROKEN || NUMA || !DISCONTIGMEM
 	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
 	help
 	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
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