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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free
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On 3/21/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> IMHO one way to find them is to actually slow down kmem_cache_free() and see
> where the performance is hurt.

Yeah, I'll try to sneak a patch past Andrew.