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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com, mpm@selenic.com,
	dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize()
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 08:45:55 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080521234555.GB32707@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805212124250.22291@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:25:26PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
> 
> The ksize() function is meant for objects allocated from the slab caches, not
> for arbitrary objects. Add a BUG_ON() to enforce that.
> 
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

This series seems to work ok with all of SLAB/SLUB/SLOB when also
applying the kobjsize() patch. Without the kobjsize() patch in place,
SLAB and SLUB both work, while SLOB still triggers the >= MAX_ORDER
BUG_ON() for page cache pages. Note that this is still an improvement
over SLUB blowing up, as it was before, even without the kobjsize()
change.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 18:25 [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize() Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-21 23:45 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2008-05-22  4:13   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22  4:21       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:34         ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22  4:43           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:55             ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22 15:01             ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-22 16:13               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22 16:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22 18:31                 ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-23 14:23                 ` Adrian Bunk

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