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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix vmalloc regression
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:58:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081108005832.GA2068@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226097354-7523-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com>

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:35:50PM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> Nick,
> 
> This is the whole set of patches I was talking about.
> Patch 3 is the one that in fact fixes the problem
> Patches 1 and 2 are debugging aids I made use of, and could be possibly
> useful to others
> Patch 4 removes guard pages entirely for non-debug kernels, as we have already
> previously discussed.
> 
> Hope it's all fine.

OK, these all look good, but I may only push 3/4 for Linus in this round,
along with some of the changes from my patch that you tested as well.

With the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC case, I have been thinking that we perhaps should
turn off the lazy unmapping optimisation as well, so it catches use
after free similarly to the page allocator... but probably it is a good
idea at least to avoid the double-guard page for 2.6.28?

Anyway thanks for these, I'll send them up to Andrew/Linus and cc you.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-08  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 22:35 [PATCH 0/4] Fix vmalloc regression Glauber Costa
2008-11-07 21:56 ` walt
2008-11-07 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/4] don't call __vmalloc from other vmap internal functions Glauber Costa
2008-11-07 22:35   ` [PATCH 2/4] show size of failing allocation Glauber Costa
2008-11-07 22:35     ` [PATCH 3/4] restart search at beggining of vmalloc address Glauber Costa
2008-11-07 22:35       ` [PATCH 4/4] Do not use guard pages in non-debug kernels Glauber Costa
2008-11-14 17:53       ` [PATCH 3/4] restart search at beggining of vmalloc address walt
2008-11-08  0:58 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-11-08  2:13   ` [PATCH 0/4] Fix vmalloc regression Glauber Costa
2008-11-08  2:54     ` Nick Piggin

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