From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
cooloney@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 14:08:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29611.1212066517@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805281328310.982@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Could the nommu people either tell us what this is all about? Or junk the
> code. This looks very wrong.
ELF-FDPIC is currently using kobjsize() so that it can expand the heap/stack
segment to fill up the entirety of its allocation. It's probably worth
dropping that, though.
NOMMU mmap() is using kobjsize()/ksize() to keep track of the number of bytes
allocated and the amount of dead space. We can probably ditch that too.
However, fs/proc/task_nommu.c uses kobjsize() quite a bit to determine how
much metadata space a process is carrying around. We could just use sizeof(),
I suppose, and not bother calculating the slack.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805281646470.27125@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
[not found] ` <20080528153648.GA27783@linux-sh.org>
2008-05-28 20:03 ` [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB Pekka Enberg
2008-05-28 20:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28 20:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-28 20:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-29 13:08 ` David Howells [this message]
2008-05-29 13:21 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-29 21:12 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-01 7:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-01 8:22 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-06-01 8:24 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-01 8:36 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-06-01 9:13 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-06-01 10:24 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-01 10:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-01 11:21 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-01 11:30 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-06-02 5:59 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-02 6:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-02 6:50 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-02 6:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-06-02 7:01 ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-01 8:22 ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-29 15:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22 16:09 Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-22 16:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22 23:40 ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22 23:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22 23:50 ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-23 0:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28 13:12 ` David Howells
2008-05-28 13:17 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-28 13:40 ` David Howells
2008-05-28 14:09 ` David Howells
2008-05-28 17:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28 17:38 ` David Howells
2008-05-28 20:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-29 13:03 ` David Howells
2008-05-29 20:25 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-29 20:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-29 20:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-29 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-30 4:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-28 14:27 ` David Howells
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