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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706251147400.9332@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	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>
Subject: Re: Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> > The "sometimes we have kmalloced buffers" locations need to be fixed.
> 
> I've said enough, I'd better leave it to others to deter you or not
> from fiddling around pointlessly here.

Are there any locations left after the two fixes to pa-risc and arm?

If the ARM fix solves the issue then we may not need that special casing 
anymore. Maybe the sometimes has become never?



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