From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
aliguori@codemonkey.ws, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regression: vmalloc easily fail.
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:28:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49080274.4040905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028232944.GA3759@wotan.suse.de>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Right... that was to add a guard page like the old vmalloc allocator.
> vmallocs still add their extra page too, so most of them will have
> a 2 page guard area, but I didn't think this would hurt significantly.
>
> I'm not against the patch, but I wonder exactly what is filling it up
> and how? (can you look at the vmalloc proc function to find out?
Maybe we're allocating two guard pages, but freeing only one?
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-28 22:55 [PATCH] regression: vmalloc easily fail Glauber Costa
2008-10-28 21:03 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-28 21:09 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-28 21:22 ` Matias Zabaljauregui
2008-10-28 21:22 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-28 21:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-28 22:03 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-28 23:29 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 6:28 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-10-29 9:48 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-29 10:11 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 10:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-29 22:07 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-30 1:53 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-30 4:49 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-30 11:28 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-31 7:16 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-04 17:51 ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-05 0:21 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-30 16:46 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-30 18:04 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-31 2:59 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-07 20:37 ` Glauber Costa
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=49080274.4040905@redhat.com \
--to=avi@redhat.com \
--cc=aliguori@codemonkey.ws \
--cc=glommer@redhat.com \
--cc=jeremy@goop.org \
--cc=krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=npiggin@suse.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.