linux-kernel - Re: frequent slab corruption (since a long time)

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Message-Id: <1154638112.23655.110.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:48:32 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbaron@...hat.com
Subject: Re: frequent slab corruption (since a long time)

Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 13:56 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> Against my better judgment I was poring over that code until the wee
> hours last night, and one thing crossed my mind re: the assumptions made
> about the BKL in that subsystem.  Now that the BKL is preemtible, do
> any of those assumptions break ?

>>From the walking of the code so far I think quite a few of them were
already broken. I'm still annotating and I hope by the end of this
evening I'll have a patch to post that documents the current state of
affairs better, including some gems 8)

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