linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: slab/slub: Add check_slab

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Message-ID: <6dc0181c-406d-bd13-f36b-98496f488979@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed, 5 Dec 2018 14:34:20 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Levin Alexander <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...gle.com>, yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com,
        hch@...radead.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mm: slab/slub: Add check_slab_flags function to
 check for valid flags

On 12/5/18 6:48 AM, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
> Remove duplicated code between slab and slub, and will make it
> easier to make the test more complicated in the next commits.
> 
> Fixes: ad67f5a6545f ("arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32")

Well, not really. Patch 3 does that and yeah this will be a prerequisity
for a clean stable backport, but we don't tag all prerequisities like
this, I think?

> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>