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

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Message-ID: <4B87A62E.5030307@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:02 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, haicheng.li@...el.com,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap

Christoph Lameter kirjoitti:
>> kmalloc_node() in generic kernel code.  All that is done under
>> MEM_GOING_ONLINE and not MEM_ONLINE, which is why I suggest the first and
>> fourth patch in this series may not be necessary if we prevent setting the
>> bit in the nodemask or building the zonelists until the slab nodelists are
>> ready.
> 
> That sounds good.

Andi?
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