linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

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Message-ID: <84144f020906150336q66b81ee9u22f84b688ace344f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:36:59 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	yinghai@...nel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Nick Piggin<npiggin@...e.de> wrote:
> Recent change to use slab allocations earlier exposed a bug where
> SLUB can call schedule_work and try to call sysfs before it is
> safe to do so.
>
> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>

Applied, thanks!
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