Re: [Resend PATCH v2] mm: Fix slab->page _count corruption.

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On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:

> OK.  I assume this bug has been there for quite some time.

Well the huge pages refcount tricks caused the issue.

> How serious is it?  Have people been reporting it in real workloads?
> How to trigger it?  IOW, does this need -stable backporting?

Possibly.

> Also, someone forgot to document these:
>
> 				struct {
> 					unsigned inuse:16;
> 					unsigned objects:15;
> 					unsigned frozen:1;
> 				};

So far I thouight that the field names are pretty clear on their own.

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