Re: [PATCH] slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 22 2013 - 10:39:22 EST


On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Glauber Costa wrote:

> As I've mentioned in the description, the real bug is from partial slabs
> being temporarily in the cpu_slab during a recent allocation and
> therefore unreachable through the partial list.

The bootstrap code does not use cpu slabs but goes directly to the slab
pages. See early_kmem_cache_node_alloc.

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