Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __GFP_ZERO vs constructor

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Apr 12 2018 - 15:24:36 EST


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:54:51AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Please Cced relevant people so they know what's going on the problem
> they spent on much time. Everyone doesn't keep an eye on mailing list.

My apologies; I assumed that git send-email would pick up the people
named in the changelog. I have now read the source code and discovered
it only picks up the people listed in Signed-off-by: and Cc:. That
surprises me; I'll submit a patch.

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:03:18PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > v1->v2:
> > - Added review/ack tags (thanks!)
> > - Switched the order of the patches
> > - Reworded commit message of the patch which actually fixes the bug
> > - Moved slab debug patches under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to check _every_
> > allocation and added checks in the slowpath for the allocations which
> > end up allocating a page.
> >
> > Matthew Wilcox (2):
> > Fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert
> > slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor
> >
> > mm/filemap.c | 9 ++++-----
> > mm/slab.c | 7 ++++---
> > mm/slab.h | 7 +++++++
> > mm/slob.c | 4 +++-
> > mm/slub.c | 5 +++--
> > 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.16.3
> >
>