Re: kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:25:04PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > Looking through all the users of kobjsize, it seems we always know
> > what the type is (and it's usually a VMA). I instead propose we use
> > ksize on objects we know to be SLAB/SLOB-allocated and add a new
> > function (kpagesize?) to size other objects where nommu needs it.
> 
> It sounds like we'd need an op in the VMA to do the per-type size thing (the
> VMA itself not the VMA ops table).

Not sure yet. There's only one user in nommu.c that shouldn't just be
changed to ksize() that I can see, and that's the one in
show_process_blocks(). That could test for VM_MAPPED_COPY and keep its
hands off otherwise. 

I can imagine situations where ->mmap returns pointers to something
that's statically allocated anyway (XIP?), where kobjsize doesn't
really make sense.

Also, looks like the WARN_ON_SLACK code has rotten, result isn't
defined in that function. Change it to base, perhaps?

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