linux-kernel - Re: [patch 18/19] dentries: Add constructor

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:12:19 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, mpm@...enic.com,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 18/19] dentries: Add constructor

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> In order to support defragmentation on the dentry cache we need to have
> a determined object state at all times. Without a constructor the object
> would have a random state after allocation.
> 
> So provide a constructor.

I'm dropping these dentry patches for now because of boot-time oopses.
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