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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:36:56 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Disable the lockless allocator
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >> Tejun, does this look good to you as well? I think it should go
> >> through the percpu tree. It's needed to fix a boot crash with
> >> lockless SLUB fastpaths enabled.
> >
> > AFAICS Linus applied it already:
> >
> > d7c3f8cee81f: percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_double
> 
> Oh, I missed that. Did you test the patch, Ingo? It's missing attributions 
> and reference to the LKML discussion unfortunately...

I think we might still be missing the hunk below - or is it now not needed 
anymore?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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