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Message-ID: <1259010117.17871.473.camel@calx> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:01:57 -0600 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:01 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 21:50 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > That turns out to be _very_ hard. How about something like the following > > > > untested patch which delays slab_destroy() while we're under nc->lock. > > > > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 13:30 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Code changes to deal with a diagnostic issue? > > > > OK, fair enough. If I suffer permanent brain damage from staring at the > > SLAB code for too long, I hope you and Matt will chip in to pay for my > > medication. You Europeans and your droll health care jokes. > Maybe something like this untested patch fixes the issue... This looks like a much better approach. -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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