linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator

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Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:25:13 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, npiggin@...nel.dk,
	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>> Tejun, does this look good to you as well? I think it should go
>> through the percpu tree. It's needed to fix a boot crash with
>> lockless SLUB fastpaths enabled.
>
> AFAICS Linus applied it already:
>
> d7c3f8cee81f: percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_double

Oh, I missed that. Did you test the patch, Ingo? It's missing
attributions and reference to the LKML discussion unfortunately...
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