On Tue, 22 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 05/21/2012 11:31 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > But until then, people bisecting into this patch will find a broken > > > state, > > > > right? > > I thought this was about clumsiness not breakage. What is broken? Aliases > > do not affect the call to __kmem_cache_shutdown. Its only called if there > > are no aliases anymore. > > > > > Well, that I missed - might be my fault. Can you point me to the exact point > where you guarantee aliases are ignored, just so we're in the same page? Look at the refcount checks. Aliases create additional refcounts. kmem_cache_shutdown is only called if the refcount reaches zero. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>