Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:38:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2 |
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, object, object[c->offset]) can succeed, > while an interrupt came (on this cpu), and several allocations were done, > and one free was performed at the end of this interruption, so 'object' > was recycled.
I think you may well be right. This looks like a good clue.
I'll do the revert. I wanted either a confirmation that reveting it actually fixes something, _or_ an actual bug description, and this seems to be a quite possible case of the latter.
Linus
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