Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757217Ab0BKVpl (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:41 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:47464 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757108Ab0BKVpi (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=Zwj3Gt7CV2bo2Ejj5oLXRaXHEqdwuaUvfbfuVVNjqJcKqSxJk9tQ4j9pIFFfOCli6 bZ7fdOFS/XKt8OYYEKDhA== Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:45:32 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Andi Kleen cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haicheng.li@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap In-Reply-To: <20100211205404.085FEB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20100211953.850854588@firstfloor.org> <20100211205404.085FEB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 557 Lines: 15 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Andi Kleen wrote: > > cache_reap can run before the node is set up and then reference a NULL > l3 list. Check for this explicitely and just continue. The node > will be eventually set up. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: David Rientjes -- 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/