On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 21:45 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote: > These are patches to fix up the issues brought up by Steven Rostedt. > > I hoped to avoid the preempt disable for the tid retrieval but there is > no per cpu atomic way to get a value from the per cpu area and also retrieve > the pointer used in that operation. The pointer is necessary to fetch the > related data from the per cpu structure. Without that we > run into more issues with page pointer checks that can cause > freelist corruption in slab_free(). Thanks for looking into this. Your can add my "Reported-by" tags to the patches. Just because I like labels ;-) -- Steve -- 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>