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SubjectRe: [STABLE PATCH] slub: make ->cpu_partial unsigned int
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > And the patch in mainline has Christoph's ack...
>
> I'm not saying there's a problem with the patch. It's that the rationale
> for backporting doesn't make any damned sense. There's something going
> on that nobody understands. This patch is probably masking an underlying
> problem that will pop back up and bite us again someday.

Right. That is why I raised the issue. I do not see any harm in
backporting but I do not think it fixes the real issue which may be in
concurrent use of page struct fields that are overlapping.

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