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SubjectRe: [git pull] RCU updates for v2.6.27

* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> There are now three commits in your tree that fix a real bug reported
> by kmemcheck: 8410565f540db87ca938f56f92780d251e4f157d ("ACPICA: Fix
> for access to deleted object <regression>"),
> adeed48090fc370afa0db8d007748ee72a40b578 ("rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start
> parameter handling"), and 62f75532b583c03840f31e40386ce2df73be9ca0
> ("slub: Initialize per-cpu stats").

there's a fourth one that i found via kmemcheck and which got fixed by
Jens but the commit log doesnt mention that it was found via kmemcheck:

| commit 63a7138671c50a6f2c27bbd1a308dc75967062a3
| Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| Date: Fri Feb 8 12:41:03 2008 +0100
|
| block: fixup rq_init() a bit

> So I think it has been helpful and that the infrastructure it adds is
> valuable for future debugging aids.

even if it was not finding any bugs it would be useful to us - it has
already cleaned up a few dusty aspects of x86 code. (it might be similar
for SLUB)

Oh, and kmemcheck got Vegard to hack Linux ;-)

Ingo


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