Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753365AbXFVBmF (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:42:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751291AbXFVBly (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:41:54 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:33699 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751290AbXFVBly (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:41:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:41:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Hugh Dickins cc: Nicolas Ferre , ARM Linux Mailing List , Linux Kernel list , Marc Pignat , Andrew Victor , Pierre Ossman , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <467A4532.40301@rfo.atmel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 16 On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Seems a little odd that it's gone throughout 2.6.22-rc unnoticed > until now - nobody else trying SLUB on ARM or PA-RISC yet perhaps. The impact is only on a subset of ARM machines. PA_RISC? It looks like they run their own flushing function for byte ranges called flush_kernel_dache_range. That does not use the page struct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/