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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:00:45 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slqb: Do not use DEFINE_PER_CPU for per-node data
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>> SLQB used a seemingly nice hack to allocate per-node data for the statically
>> initialised caches. Unfortunately, due to some unknown per-cpu
>> optimisation, these regions are being reused by something else as the
>> per-node data is getting randomly scrambled. This patch fixes the
>> problem but it's not fully understood *why* it fixes the problem at the
>> moment.
> 
> Ouch, that sounds bad. I guess it's architecture specific bug as x86
> works ok? Lets CC Tejun.

Is the corruption being seen on ppc or s390?

Thanks.

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tejun
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