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From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl-V7BBcbaFuwjMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] restart thread safety: remove malloc from genstack
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:08:56 -0500
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On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:08 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
> We use clone and eclone directly and not through glibc, therefore
> must explicitly care about thread-safety of malloc.
> 
> This patch eliminates the use of malloc() in genstack_alloc().
> Use mmap() instead. While an overkill, I don't expect performance
> issues of this.

Other than a missed conversion of free -> munmap in one of the error
paths in genstack_alloc, this looks fine.