Subject: Re: frequent slab corruption (since a long time)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 13:56 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> Against my better judgment I was poring over that code until the wee
> hours last night, and one thing crossed my mind re: the assumptions made
> about the BKL in that subsystem.  Now that the BKL is preemtible, do
> any of those assumptions break ?

>From the walking of the code so far I think quite a few of them were
already broken. I'm still annotating and I hope by the end of this
evening I'll have a patch to post that documents the current state of
affairs better, including some gems 8)

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