On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:00:52 +0100 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/20/20 12:55 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > This reverts commit ad2c8144418c6a81cefe65379fd47bbe8344cef2.
> >
> > The function node_to_mem_node() was introduced by that commit for use in SLUB
> > on systems with memoryless nodes, but it turned out to be unreliable on some
> > architectures/configurations and a simpler solution exists than fixing it up.
> >
> > Thus the previous commit "mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory
> > leaks" removed the only user of node_to_mem_node() and we can revert the commit
> > that introduced it.
>
> Since the bugfix was fast-tracked to Linus, we can now reference it properly and
> replace the second paragraph with:
>
> Thus commit 0715e6c516f1 ("mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory
> leaks") removed the only user of node_to_mem_node() and we can revert the commit
> that introduced the function.
I updated the changelog, thanks.
