linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] SLOB's krealloc() seems bust

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Message-Id: <1223451592.31490.11.camel@penberg-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:39:52 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB's krealloc() seems bust

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 09:37 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 10:25 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 00:15 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > >> Damnit, how many ways can we get confused by these little details? I'll
> > >> spin a final version and run it against the test harness shortly.
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> > > So I'll wait with testing for the next version?
> > 
> > AFAICT, this should be fine:
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/7/436
> > 
> > You need to revert the patch Linus already committed before applying
> > that though.
> 
> Or not have pulled it yet ;-)
> 
> Anyway, that patch seems to be good on 4 boots.

Thanks for testing, Peter!

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

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