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SubjectRe: [PATCH] slub - Use local_t protection
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> @@ -1566,12 +1565,13 @@ redo:
> object[c->offset]) != object))
> goto redo;
>
> - put_cpu();
> + local_exit(flags);
> if (unlikely((gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO)))
> memset(object, 0, c->objsize);
>
> return object;
> slow:
> + local_exit(flags);

Here we can be rescheduled to another processors.

> return __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c)

c may point to the wrong processor.
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