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Subject: Re: [FIX] slub: Remove kmalloc under list_lock from list_slab_objects()
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On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Perform the allocation in free_partial() before the list_lock is taken.
>
> No response here?  It looks a lot simpler than the originally proposed
> patch?

Yup. I prefer this one but its my own patch so I cannot Ack this.