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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: initialize delayed work on each rpc_inode allocation
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:54:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2800B4.6040302@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120130185753.50280816@tlielax.poochiereds.net>

On 01/31/2012 01:57 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>     WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()
> 
> For now, this patch is really just papering over that problem, but it
> should be "mostly harmless". That said, I'm ok with dropping it if
> Thomas is planning to fix this in the debugobjects code however.
> 

I disagree it's harmless. What if kmem_cache_free/kmem_cache_alloc deploys
a poisoning schema, in debug mode. Which stumps over memory. Is it
initialized then?

What was the last state of the timer, is it safe for resume?

For us this is a new object we should initialize it.

Boaz

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-31 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-24 17:40 [PATCH] sunrpc: initialize delayed work on each rpc_inode allocation Jeff Layton
2012-01-25 11:48 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-01-30 20:43 ` Steve Dickson
2012-01-30 21:07   ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-01-30 23:57     ` Jeff Layton
2012-01-31 14:54       ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2012-01-31 15:03         ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-01-31 15:12         ` Jeff Layton
2012-01-31 21:56           ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-01-31 21:56             ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-02-29 16:56 ` Jeff Layton

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