Re: [patch] lockdep: annotate mm/slab.c

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Whew! We drop the list lock before calling slab_destroy.
> 
> Well we did, up until about ten minutes ago.
> 
> free_block()'s droppage of l3->list_lock around the slab_destroy() call was
> just reverted, due to Shailabh confirming that it caused corruption.

How would this slab become corrupted if it is no longer on the lists?
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