linux-kernel - Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator

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Message-ID: <4B0D0A21.1040205@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:42:41 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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

Peter Zijlstra kirjoitti:
> 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.

I'll take that as an ACK ;-) Thanks!
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