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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:53:07 +0100
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.39 kmem_cache bug
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:15:52AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:

> How about this (untested) instead.  If we can avoid using cachep->slabs_free its 
> a good thing.  Why use three lists when two can do the job?  I use a loop to clean 
> the partial list since its possible that for some caches we may want to have more
> than one slabp of buffer.

This patch seems to work for me too (though I have tested it only
lightly)

At least it fixes the false kmem_cache_destroy() report vs. 2.5.39

regards
john

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