On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Laura Abbott wrote: > Currently, free_debug_processing has a comment "Keep node_lock to preserve > integrity until the object is actually freed". In actuallity, > the lock is dropped immediately in __slab_free. Rather than wait until > __slab_free and potentially throw off the unlikely marking, just drop > the lock in __slab_free. This also lets free_debug_processing take > its own copy of the spinlock flags rather than trying to share the ones > from __slab_free. Since there is no use for the node afterwards, change > the return type of free_debug_processing to return an int like > alloc_debug_processing. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>\ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>