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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	PUVICHAKRAVARTHY RAMACHANDRAN <puvichakravarthy@in.ibm.com>,
	Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "topology: add support for node_to_mem_node() to determine the fallback node"
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:54:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325175433.d5ff1aeecfc7759e66c3898f@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb00dbdc-3d67-366b-f5ba-11d297ebc0a8@suse.cz>

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:00:52 +0100 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:

> On 3/20/20 12:55 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > This reverts commit ad2c8144418c6a81cefe65379fd47bbe8344cef2.
> > 
> > The function node_to_mem_node() was introduced by that commit for use in SLUB
> > on systems with memoryless nodes, but it turned out to be unreliable on some
> > architectures/configurations and a simpler solution exists than fixing it up.
> > 
> > Thus the previous commit "mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory
> > leaks" removed the only user of node_to_mem_node() and we can revert the commit
> > that introduced it.
> 
> Since the bugfix was fast-tracked to Linus, we can now reference it properly and
> replace the second paragraph with:
> 
> Thus commit 0715e6c516f1 ("mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory
> leaks") removed the only user of node_to_mem_node() and we can revert the commit
> that introduced the function.

I updated the changelog, thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-20 11:55 [PATCH 1/2] mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory leaks Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-20 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "topology: add support for node_to_mem_node() to determine the fallback node" Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-20 13:12   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2020-03-24 13:00   ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-03-26  0:54     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-03-20 13:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm, slub: prevent kmalloc_node crashes and memory leaks Srikar Dronamraju

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