Re: [PATCH] Revert "slub: Remove node check in slab_free"

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed May 25 2011 - 07:13:32 EST


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> i too was seeing various instabilities and SLUB corruption in -tip testing.
>> Every 5th randconfig kernel crashes.
>>
>> I started testing the revert.
>
> Stability of -tip has increased dramatically (36 test iterations and
> no crash), so yes this revert resolves the crashes.
>
> I've attached the changelogified revert patch below. James, since i
> was seeing these sporadically you've saved me a couple of hours of
> rather painful bisection work! :-)

Thank you Ingo!
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