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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/11] mm/slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC again
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Hi Jonsoo,

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:26 AM, <js1304@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
> Initial attemp to remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC is once reverted by
> 'commit edcad2509550 ("Revert "slab: remove BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC"")'
> because it causes a problem on m68k which has many node
> but !CONFIG_NUMA. In this case, although alien cache isn't used
> at all but to cope with some initialization path, garbage value
> is used and that is BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC. Now, this patch set
> use_alien_caches to 0 when !CONFIG_NUMA, there is no initialization
> path problem so we don't need BAD_ALIEN_MAGIC at all. So remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

I gave this a try on m68k/ARAnyM, and it didn't crash, unlike the previous
version that was reverted, so
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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-- Linus Torvalds

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