linux-kernel - Re: Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:11:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@....atmel.com>,
	ARM Linux Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@...s.ch>,
	Andrew Victor <andrew@...people.com>,
	Pierre Ossman <drzeus@...eus.cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
> (immediately after 2.6.22, accompanied by your ARM patch)

We need to fix any remaining weird slab object uses right now. Your check 
leaves a lot of holes open. 2.6.22 removes all other such strange slab 
uses in other arches. It would be inconsistent if we left these things in 
ARM (and maybe PA-RISC).





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