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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:19:32 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > you mean kmemcheck? Yes, that's planned. We've been working 4 months
> > non-stop on kmemcheck to make it mergeable and usable, it's at version 7
> > right now, and it caught a handful of real bugs already (such as
> > 63a7138671c - unfortunately not credited in the log to kmemcheck). But
> > because it touches SLUB (because it has to - and they are acked by
> > Pekka) i never had the chance to move it into the for-akpm branch.
>
>  Does it really really really need to consume one of our few remaining page
>  flags?  We'll be in a mess when we run out.

FYI, the initial version of kmemcheck didn't have a separate page flag
(it abused SLUB internals) but it got really hairy and I think I
finally convinced Vegard to switch over to page flags after some
hair-pulling when we hit a bug. So yes, from SLUB maintainer point of
view, we _really, really_ want to use a page flag here.