Sure. Maybe someone there can explain this particular point,
or we'll find a volunteer to make the slab code learn how to
be pci-consistent!
- Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Zaitcev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Brownell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Peter Zaitcev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Patch for usb-uhci and poisoned slab (2.4.2-ac7)
> > Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:10:26 -0800
> > From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > I found that usb-uhci fails when FORCE_DEBUG is set in mm/slab.c
> > > because it expects 16 bytes alignment for structures it allocates.
> >
> > And mm/slab.c changes semantics when CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG
> > is set: it ignores SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN. That seems more like
> > the root cause of the problem to me!
> >
> > It's a lot simpler to patch mm/slab.c so its semantics don't change.
> > That is, don't resolve clashes between HWCACHE_ALIGN and
> > automagic redzoning in favor of redzoning any more.
>
> Mind if I take it to linux-kernel?
>
> -- Pete
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