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authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>2013-02-22 17:20:00 +0100
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2013-02-28 08:29:38 +0100
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parentmm/sl[au]b: correct allocation type check in kmalloc_slab() (diff)
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slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches
After we create a boot cache, we may allocate from it until it is bootstraped. This will move the page from the partial list to the cpu slab list. If this happens, the loop: list_for_each_entry(p, &n->partial, lru) that we use to scan for all partial pages will yield nothing, and the pages will keep pointing to the boot cpu cache, which is of course, invalid. To do that, we should flush the cache to make sure that the cpu slab is back to the partial list. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reported-by: Steffen Michalke <StMichalke@web.de> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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