* [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
@ 2008-01-30 3:46 Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 7:46 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-01-30 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Lameter @ 2008-01-30 3:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm; +Cc: linux-mm, penberg
This patch is needed for correct sysfs operation in slub.
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* Re: [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
2008-01-30 3:46 [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting Christoph Lameter
@ 2008-01-30 7:46 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-01-30 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Pekka J Enberg @ 2008-01-30 7:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Lameter; +Cc: akpm, linux-mm
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
>
> If CONFIG_SYSFS is set then free the kmem_cache structure when
> sysfs tells us its okay.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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* Re: [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
2008-01-30 3:46 [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 7:46 ` Pekka J Enberg
@ 2008-01-30 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-30 23:49 ` Christoph Lameter
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2008-01-30 23:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Lameter; +Cc: linux-mm, penberg
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:46:35 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> This patch is needed for correct sysfs operation in slub.
>
>
> >From 515049485d863d56f2d54a5a427a4b246fff8d61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:29:05 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
>
> If CONFIG_SYSFS is set then free the kmem_cache structure when
> sysfs tells us its okay.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Sorry, but the changelogging here is inadequate. What is incorrect about
the current behaviour and how does this patch improve things? What are the
consequences of not merging this patch? Leak? Crash?
One of the reasons why this information is important is so I can make a
do-we-need-this-in-stable decision.
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* Re: [PATCH] SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
2008-01-30 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2008-01-30 23:49 ` Christoph Lameter
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From: Christoph Lameter @ 2008-01-30 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: linux-mm, penberg
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sorry, but the changelogging here is inadequate. What is incorrect about
> the current behaviour and how does this patch improve things? What are the
> consequences of not merging this patch? Leak? Crash?
>
> One of the reasons why this information is important is so I can make a
> do-we-need-this-in-stable decision.
Last time I sent it to you was Dec 27th. You forwarded to Al Viro but no
response.
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