Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934084Ab1CXT3L (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:29:11 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:43675 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933988Ab1CXT3H (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:29:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=Vr0/V2fLZwLt5YhgaA3pr2GUD8/bECjF9o9iwVNZ8ueI1q+Z8LbnUwkDHIaxAP1+lY ewYoQ5jdTSd3Iu4Jki4iglSaWKC7JRLhXhsbKzp8FLQ7jy6H76Z22C4lqS/MMz/o8ebq p7bHEdYKeO1e1Hrco9vqOAdQ3GzO9++PxEQVY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110324192712.GA7156@elte.hu> References: <20110324142146.GA11682@elte.hu> <20110324172653.GA28507@elte.hu> <20110324192712.GA7156@elte.hu> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:29:06 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: RRq8hmNhUT6HLjmG7ls37AsknvU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1 From: Pekka Enberg To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Lameter , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org, npiggin@kernel.dk, rientjes@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1106 Lines: 26 On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Pekka Enberg wrote: > >> >From dd1534455196d2a8f6c9c912db614e59986c9f0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Pekka Enberg >> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:59:35 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] x86: Early boot alternative instructions > > hm, patch is whitespace damaged. > > Also, the fix looks rather intrusive. > > Could we please disable the lockless slub code first and then do everything > with proper testing and re-enable the lockless code *after* we know that the > alternatives fixup change is robust, etc? That way there's no rush needed. > > There's a lot of code that could break from tweaking the alternatives code. Just ignore this patch. As explained by Christoph, if alternative_io() was the issue, we'd see the crash in kmem_cache_alloc(). -- 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/