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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clameter@sgi.com,
	lethal@linux-sh.org, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] SLOB: make ksize() more strict for page	allocator pass-through
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:11:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483473EA.40901@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211396840.18026.276.camel@calx>

Matt Mackall wrote:
> We already know users (ie nommu memory usage reporting) are abusing this
> interface. Making them blow up is unnecessary. Just give them wrong
> answers. Issuing a warning might be a good idea for debugging.

But kobjsize() never calls ksize() with SLOB as it doesn't set PageSlab. 
Or are you talking about something else here?

Matt Mackall wrote:
> Second, I'd prefer to keep this sort of debugging code out of SLOB.
> SLUB is much better suited to debugging allocator abuse.

Fair enough. I'll drop the patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 18:26 Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-21 19:07 ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-21 19:11   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-05-21 21:12     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-21 21:13       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-21 21:16         ` Christoph Lameter

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