Re: [PATCH] slub: Fix sysfs circular locking dependency

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:34 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  [ Should probably be seperated out into two patches, one for the
> >   memory hotplug locking addition and one for the slub fix, both
> >   should be pushed during this merge window.  If so, a comment
> >   describing the new semantics of lock_memory_hotplug() to protect
> >   data structures that may be modified in hotplug notifier
> >   callbacks would be appreciated. ]
>
> Agreed.

Kame-san: Could you do the hotplug piece and the description of the use
of the memory hotplug locks to protect extensions of data structures for
new nodes?