Re: FIX [0/2] Slub hot path fixes

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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


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