Re: [PATCH] list_add corruption in slab.c

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 10:16:45 EST


On (25/03/08 23:13), Pekka Enberg didst pronounce:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel Yeisley wrote:
> >I actually saw that initkmem_list reference, but didn't change it since
> >my original patch fixed my list corruption. Anyway, I made the changed
> >and tested it. The system booted fine.
>
> Yeah, but the second change is needed; otherwise we forget to fix up
> some of the bootstrap caches.
>
> > ???Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Mel, as this change is related to the memoryless node fix that went in
> 2.6.24, any chance you'd give this patch a spin on your machines so we
> can get the fix in 2.6.25 and 2.6.24-stable?
>

Of course. Tested against 2.6.25-rc5 on normal and memoryless machines
running just kernbench. So far, I have seen no problems.

--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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