linux-kernel - Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386

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Message-Id: <200707192303.35743.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:03:35 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: kmalloc zero size changes break i386

On Thursday 19 July 2007 21:19:29 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Does something like this fix it?
> > 
> > Christoph, please go over this and see if there are other cases like that.
> 
> Actually, here's a better version, I think.
> 
> Andi, does this patch fix your problem?

No, unfortunately not.

e.g. I see it in a git checkout (with head 589f1e81bde732dd0b1bc5d01b6bddd4bcb4527b),
but not in plain -git12, but when I readd my x86 patchkit to -git12 it happens 
again. I also switched to slub in the config and I also still see it. 
Trying to bisect that right now.

-Andi
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