linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: fix the alias count(via sysfs) of slab cache

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1407231612290.1389@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:13:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: fix the alias count(via sysfs) of slab cache

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Gu Zheng wrote:

> We mark some slabs(e.g. kmem_cache_node) as unmergeable via setting
> refcount to -1, and their alias should be 0, not refcount-1, so correct
> it here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@...fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

s/slabs/slab caches/

The two slab caches of interest are kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node.
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