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Message-ID: <20100222143111.GA15778@basil.fritz.box>
Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:31:11 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, haicheng.li@...el.com, rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:53:27PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Andi Kleen kirjoitti:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:22:58PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm just worried there is still an underlying problem here.
>>> So am I. What caused the breakage that requires this patchset?
>>
>> Memory hotadd with a new node being onlined.
>
> So can you post the oops, please? Right now I am looking at zapping the 

I can't post the oops from a pre-release system.

> series from slab.git due to NAKs from both Christoph and Nick.

Huh? They just complained about the patch, not the whole series.
I don't understand how that could prompt you to drop the whole series.

As far as I know nobody said the patch is wrong so far, just
that they wanted to have more analysis.

-Andi

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ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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