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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nommu: Push kobjsize() slab-specific logic down to ksize().
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:22:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211318557.18026.215.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805201215330.11020@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:16 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > > How would that work given that both SLUB and SLOB forward >4k allocs to 
> > > the page allocator? So any compound page allocation may be a slab 
> > > allocation. Is there some way to distinguish between a 
> > > allocations of the page allocator and a slab alloc?
> > 
> > We can't do it at all for SLOB. But when debugging is turned on, we can
> > notice (in SLAB and SLUB) whenever anyone asks for the ksize() of
> > something that lives on a non-kmalloc slab.
> 
> We could mark the pages specially I guess. Add a slab flag for 
> kmalloc? PageSlab and PageKmalloc?

No, just warn for the cases where we already have enough information.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20  9:59 [PATCH] nommu: Push kobjsize() slab-specific logic down to ksize() Paul Mundt
2008-05-20 15:18 ` David Howells
2008-05-20 16:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-20 18:23     ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-20 18:51       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-20 19:00         ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-20 19:08           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-20 19:14             ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-20 19:16               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-20 21:22                 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-05-21  1:19                   ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-21  1:52                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22  4:23     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-20 16:29 ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-21  2:43   ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-21 14:58 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-21 15:06   ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-21 17:13 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-21 17:27   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-21 19:08   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-21 23:43   ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22  0:01     ` Christoph Lameter

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