linux-kernel - Re: SLUB regression in current Linus

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 11:29:53 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SLUB regression in current Linus

On Wed, 25 May 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c	2011-05-25 09:41:27.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c	2011-05-25 09:41:39.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -1884,7 +1884,8 @@ debug:
> >  	deactivate_slab(s, c);
> >  	c->page = NULL;
>
> is this c->page = NULL; really necessary ?

No. deactivate_slab() already sets it to NULL.

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