Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] SLQB: Mark the allocator as broken PowerPC and S390
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:16:21 +0300
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On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:12 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Ok, I just wanted to debug this on s390. But... the bug seems to have
> disappeared.
> I pulled in
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git slqb/core
> 
> and tried defconfig (+SLQB) as well as allyesconfig (+SLQB). Both started and
> didn't show the crash-before-console-is-active which went away when switching
> to a different allocator.
> So the s390 restriction seems to be resolved. Don't know why...

IIRC, this is the only bug fix that was merged after your report:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=ff61c4950125b09b5e5a83d48a6c81827e9d67ab

			Pekka

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