On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 03:43:43PM +0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:59:09AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:36:19PM +0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> > > fix mmc mailing list address error
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:31:50PM +0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > With v3.13-rc3 I have an error when the atmel-mci driver calls
> > > > flush_dcache_page (log at the end of the message).
> > > >
> > > > Since I didn't have it before, I did a git bisect and the commit introducing
> > > > the error is the following one:
> > > >
> > > > 106a74e slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if this commit has introduced a bug or if it has revealed a bug
> > > > in the atmel-mci driver.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I think that this commit may not introduce a bug. This patch remove one
> > variable on slab management structure and replace variable name. So there
> > is no functional change.
> >
>
> If I have reverted this patch and other ones you did on top of it and
> the issue disappear.
Hello,
Could you give me your '/proc/slabinfo' before/after this commit (106a74e)?
And how about testing with artificially increasing size of struct slab on
top of this commit (106a74e)?
I really wonder why the problem happens, because this doesn't cause any
functional change as far as I know. Only side-effect from this patch is
decreasing size of struct slab.
Thanks.
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 2ec2336..d2240fd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ struct slab {
struct {
struct list_head list;
void *s_mem; /* including colour offset */
+ unsigned int x;
unsigned int active; /* num of objs active in slab */
};
};
>
> > I doubt that side-effect of this patch reveals a bug in other place.
> > Side-effect is reduced memory usage for slab management structure. It would
> > makes some slabs have more objects with more density since slab management
> > structure is sometimes on the page for objects. So if it diminishes, more
> > objects can be in the page.
> >
> > Anyway, I will look at it more. If you have any progress, please let me know.
>
> No progress at the moment.
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