This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
Subject: ext4: Free ext4_prealloc_space using kmem_cache_free
to the 2.6.27-stable tree. Its filename is
ext4-free-ext4_prealloc_space-using-kmem_cache_free.patch
A git repo of this tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>From tytso@xxxxxxx Wed Dec 3 10:42:23 2008
From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:32 -0500
Subject: ext4: Free ext4_prealloc_space using kmem_cache_free
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1226851540-8032-13-git-send-email-tytso@xxxxxxx>
From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 688f05a01983711a4e715b1d6e15a89a89c96a66)
We should use kmem_cache_free to free memory allocated
via kmem_cache_alloc
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2577,7 +2577,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_cleanup_pa(struct ex
pa = list_entry(cur, struct ext4_prealloc_space, pa_group_list);
list_del(&pa->pa_group_list);
count++;
- kfree(pa);
+ kmem_cache_free(ext4_pspace_cachep, pa);
}
if (count)
mb_debug("mballoc: %u PAs left\n", count);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-2.6.27/ext4-elevate-write-count-for-migrate-ioctl.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-free-ext4_prealloc_space-using-kmem_cache_free.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-do-mballoc-init-before-doing-filesystem-recovery.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-convert-to-host-order-before-using-the-values.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-mark-the-buffer_heads-as-dirty-and-uptodate-after-prepare_write.patch
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