From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Aubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@snapgear.com,
gerg@snapgear.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:25:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24525.1158089104@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060912174339.GA19707@waste.org>
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).
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-12 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-04 6:56 kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator Aubrey
2006-09-04 10:21 ` David Howells
2006-09-05 3:52 ` Aubrey
2006-09-05 9:35 ` David Howells
2006-09-06 2:35 ` Aubrey
2006-09-06 3:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-12 8:07 ` Aubrey
2006-09-12 8:54 ` David Howells
2006-09-12 10:53 ` Aubrey
2006-09-12 17:43 ` Matt Mackall
2006-09-12 19:10 ` David Howells
2006-09-12 20:51 ` Matt Mackall
2006-09-12 20:56 ` David Howells
2006-09-12 21:04 ` Matt Mackall
2006-09-12 21:59 ` David Howells
2006-09-13 19:39 ` Matt Mackall
2006-09-13 2:16 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-13 7:21 ` Aubrey
2006-09-12 19:25 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-09-12 20:28 ` Matt Mackall
2006-09-12 21:02 ` David Howells
2006-09-12 21:15 ` Matt Mackall
2006-09-12 20:49 ` Matt Mackall
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