linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at alloc_alien

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1001041126340.7191@router.home>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:27:07 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab: initialize unused alien cache entry as NULL at
 alloc_alien_cache().

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Haicheng Li wrote:

> @@ -966,18 +966,16 @@ static void *alternate_node_alloc(struct kmem_cache *,
> gfp_t);
>  static struct array_cache **alloc_alien_cache(int node, int limit, gfp_t gfp)
>  {
>  	struct array_cache **ac_ptr;
> -	int memsize = sizeof(void *) * nr_node_ids;
> +	int memsize = sizeof(void *) * MAX_NUMNODES;
>  	int i;

Remove this change and I will ack the patch.

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