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Commit 6fb8f424 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Pekka Enberg
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slob: fix lockup in slob_free()



Don't hold SLOB lock when freeing the page. Reduces lock hold width. See
the following thread for discussion of the bug:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123709983214143&w=2

Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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