linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND GIT PATCH tj-percpu] percpu: fix spurious alignment WARN in legacy SMP percpu allocator

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Message-ID: <49B75EAE.4080708@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:18:14 +0530
From:	"Sachin P. Sant" <sachinp@...ibm.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RESEND GIT PATCH tj-percpu] percpu: fix spurious alignment WARN
 in legacy SMP percpu allocator

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Impact: remove spurious WARN on legacy SMP percpu allocator
>
> Commit f2a8205c4ef1af917d175c36a4097ae5587791c8 incorrectly added too
> tight WARN_ON_ONCE() on alignments for UP and legacy SMP percpu
> allocator.  Commit e317603694bfd17b28a40de9d65e1a4ec12f816e fixed it
> for UP but legacy SMP allocator was forgotten.  Fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Reported-by: Sachin P. Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>
> ---
Thanks. The patch fixes the warning.

Tested-by : Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ibm.com>


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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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