Re: [PATCH] slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches

Christoph Lameter
2013-02-22T15:39:16Z

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Glauber Costa wrote:

> As I've mentioned in the description, the real bug is from partial slabs
> being temporarily in the cpu_slab during a recent allocation and
> therefore unreachable through the partial list.

The bootstrap code does not use cpu slabs but goes directly to the slab
pages. See early_kmem_cache_node_alloc.