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SubjectRe: lockdep complaints in slab allocator
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On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:01 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 21:50 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > > That turns out to be _very_ hard. How about something like the following
> > > > untested patch which delays slab_destroy() while we're under nc->lock.
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 13:30 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > Code changes to deal with a diagnostic issue?
> >
> > OK, fair enough. If I suffer permanent brain damage from staring at the
> > SLAB code for too long, I hope you and Matt will chip in to pay for my
> > medication.

You Europeans and your droll health care jokes.

> Maybe something like this untested patch fixes the issue...

This looks like a much better approach.

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