Re: [FIX] slub: Remove kmalloc under list_lock from list_slab_objects() V2

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri Jan 10 2020 - 09:12:00 EST


On 12/7/19 11:03 PM, Yu Zhao wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 03:12:20PM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>> Perform the allocation in free_partial() before the list_lock is taken.
>>>
>>> No response here? It looks a lot simpler than the originally proposed
>>> patch?
>>
>> Yup. I prefer this one but its my own patch so I cannot Ack this.
>
> Hi, there is a pending question from Tetsuo-san. I'd be happy to ack
> once it's address.

Tetsuo's mails don't reach linux-mm for a while and he has given up
trying to do something about it. It's hard to discuss anything outside
the direct CC group then. I don't know what's the pending question, for
example.