Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:11:35 +0900
From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
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        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] mm/slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC again
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:58:38AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Jonsoo,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:26 AM,  <js1304@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> >
> > Initial attemp to remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC is once reverted by
> > 'commit edcad2509550 ("Revert "slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC"")'
> > because it causes a problem on m68k which has many node
> > but !CONFIG_NUMA. In this case, although alien cache isn't used
> > at all but to cope with some initialization path, garbage value
> > is used and that is BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC. Now, this patch set
> > use_alien_caches to 0 when !CONFIG_NUMA, there is no initialization
> > path problem so we don't need BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC at all. So remove it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> 
> I gave this a try on m68k/ARAnyM, and it didn't crash, unlike the previous
> version that was reverted, so
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Thanks for testing!!!

Thanks.