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).

On looking closer, one place where both the current code and my
proposed change are wrong are measurements on the init task, where
many elements of task_struct are statically allocated.

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