Re: Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 21:42:09 EST


On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Seems a little odd that it's gone throughout 2.6.22-rc unnoticed
> until now - nobody else trying SLUB on ARM or PA-RISC yet perhaps.

The impact is only on a subset of ARM machines.

PA_RISC? It looks like they run their own flushing function for byte
ranges called flush_kernel_dache_range. That does not use the page struct.


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