linux-kernel - Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

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Message-ID: <1259097990.4531.1843.camel@laptop>
Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:26:30 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 22:59 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Thanks! Please let me know when you're hammered it enough :-). Peter,
> may I have your ACK or NAK on the patch, please?

Well, I'm not going to NAK it, for I think it does clean up that
recursion crap a little, but it should have more merit that
side-stepping lockdep.

If you too feel it make SLAB ever so slightly more palatable then ACK,
otherwise I'm perfectly fine with letting SLAB bitrot.

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