Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:50:22 +0000 | From | Christopher Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [STABLE PATCH] slub: make ->cpu_partial unsigned int |
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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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