linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.10

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Date:	Wed, 8 May 2013 12:05:34 -0700
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...ionio.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v3.10

* Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> [130508 11:31]:
> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes things for me, but to maintain the rules from
> > Christoph's patch,  kmalloc_caches[2] should have been created whenever
> > kmalloc_caches[7] was done.
> 
> Not necessary. The early slab bootstrap must create some slab caches of
> specific sizes, it will only use those during very early bootstrap.
> 
> The later creation of the array must skip those.
> 
> You correctly moved the checks out of the if (!kmalloc_cacheS())
> condition so that the caches are created properly.
> 
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

Great this fixes things for me too:

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> 
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