linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache

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Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:53:27 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	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

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

			Pekka
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