linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803252023530.20780@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mel@....ul.ie, olaf@...fle.de,
	dan.yeisley@...sys.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> Andrew/Christoph, this needs to go into 2.6.25 and probably 2.6.24.x as 
> well. Hopefully either Mel or Olaf can test this on their machines to 
> confirm the fix doesn't break their setup.

Ok. I see the problem in the amazing artwork of NUMA bootstrap in SLAB 
that was made even more complex with the fixes late in 2.6.24. 
Now we are up for the da capo on this in 2.6.25. Sigh.

Will merge if I get confirmation that this indeed addresses the issue.
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