On Tue, 22 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 11:31 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > > But until then, people bisecting into this patch will find a broken
> > > state,
> > > > right?
> > I thought this was about clumsiness not breakage. What is broken? Aliases
> > do not affect the call to __kmem_cache_shutdown. Its only called if there
> > are no aliases anymore.
> >
> >
> Well, that I missed - might be my fault. Can you point me to the exact point
> where you guarantee aliases are ignored, just so we're in the same page?
Look at the refcount checks. Aliases create additional refcounts.
kmem_cache_shutdown is only called if the refcount reaches zero.
--
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/ .
Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
[Site Home]
[Linux ARM Kernel]
[Linux ARM]
[Linux Omap]
[Fedora ARM]
[IETF Annouce]
[Security]
[Bugtraq]
[Linux]
[Linux OMAP]
[Linux MIPS]
[ECOS]
[Tools]
[DDR & Rambus]
[Asterisk Internet PBX]
[Linux API]
[Monitors]
