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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbaron@redhat.com
Subject: Re: frequent slab corruption (since a long time)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:48:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154638112.23655.110.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060803175613.GK22448@redhat.com>

Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 13:56 -0400, ysgrifennodd Dave Jones:
> Against my better judgment I was poring over that code until the wee
> hours last night, and one thing crossed my mind re: the assumptions made
> about the BKL in that subsystem.  Now that the BKL is preemtible, do
> any of those assumptions break ?

>From the walking of the code so far I think quite a few of them were
already broken. I'm still annotating and I hope by the end of this
evening I'll have a patch to post that documents the current state of
affairs better, including some gems 8)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-03 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-02  2:16 frequent slab corruption (since a long time) Dave Jones
2006-08-02  2:34 ` Roland Dreier
2006-08-02  3:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-02  4:22   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-02  4:35     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-02  4:46       ` Dave Jones
2006-08-02  5:05 ` David Miller
2006-08-02  5:31   ` David Miller
2006-08-02 22:23     ` Dave Jones
2006-08-02 22:49       ` David Miller
2006-08-03 17:40         ` Alan Cox
2006-08-03 17:56           ` Dave Jones
2006-08-03 20:48             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-02 23:14       ` Alan Cox

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