From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Common [13/20] Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:41:36 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50180AC0.1040403@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207311129520.32295@router.home>
On 07/31/2012 08:30 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
>
>> Yes, but since deleting caches is not a common operation in the kernel,
>> you will have to force somehow.
>
> On bootup the ACPI subsystem creates some caches and also removes them.
> This bug actually triggers here even when using kvm. Seems that this is
> due to some use of kmalloc allocations for kmem_cache in slub where we use
> kmalloc-256 instead of kmem_cache.
>
Ok, maybe this is due to a difference in our setup. I needed to
explicitly create and destroy caches to trigger it.
But as long as it is fixed, it doesn't really matter =)
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-01 19:52 Common [00/20] Sl[auo]b: Common code rework V4 Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [01/20] [slob] Define page struct fields used in mm_types.h Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [03/20] [slob] Remove various small accessors Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [04/20] [slab] Use page struct fields instead of casting Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [05/20] [slab] Remove some accessors Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [06/20] Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [07/20] [slab] Get rid of obj_size macro Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [08/20] Extract common code for kmem_cache_create() Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [09/20] Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [10/20] Use a common mutex definition Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [11/20] Move kmem_cache_create mutex handling to common code Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [13/20] Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 12:01 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-31 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 14:16 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-31 14:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 14:47 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-31 16:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-31 16:41 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-07-31 16:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:52 ` Common [14/20] Always use the name "kmem_cache" for the slab cache with the kmem_cache structure Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:53 ` Common [16/20] Get rid of __kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:53 ` Common [17/20] Move duping of slab name to slab_common.c Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:53 ` Common [18/20] Do slab aliasing call from common code Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:53 ` Common [19/20] Allocate kmem_cache structure in slab_common.c Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:53 ` Common [20/20] Common alignment code Christoph Lameter
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2012-06-13 15:24 Common [00/20] Sl[auo]b: Common code rework V5 (for merge) Christoph Lameter
2012-06-13 15:25 ` Common [13/20] Extract a common function for kmem_cache_destroy Christoph Lameter
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