From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754338AbZECM21 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2009 08:28:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751806AbZECM2T (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2009 08:28:19 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:45660 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751325AbZECM2S (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2009 08:28:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Fix memory corruption in slbq From: Pekka Enberg To: Jack Steiner Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090503122443.GA25905@sgi.com> References: <20090501004105.GA16409@sgi.com> <84144f020905030518u22c256ealb1d2511c397454e3@mail.gmail.com> <20090503122443.GA25905@sgi.com> Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 15:28:17 +0300 Message-Id: <1241353697.27683.5.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jack, On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 07:24 -0500, Jack Steiner wrote: > > I don't think this is needed now that commit 8804e6f ("SLQB: fix dumb > > early allocation cache") is merged: > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8804e6f0001668656d4cb2a329e1a6e69e695a0f > > > > Or do you still see the corruption with it? > > No. The above patch is an equivalent ( & better) fix. for the problem. > You can ignore the patch that I sent. OK, thanks for the patch anyway! Pekka