From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: upcoming kerneloops.org item: get_page_from_freelist
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:20:41 -0500
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Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>> I'll test it; it'd be great if it did, I'm um, a bit ashamed at how I
>> fixed it ;)
> 
> Isnt the problem that the slab allocator did not align something that
> you did not request to be aligned?

Well, maybe that's all I needed.  At the risk of exposing myself to
ridicule, here's the commit:

7fcba054373d5dfc43d26e243a5c9b92069972ee

Was there a better way?

-Eric