Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:36:02 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator |
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Aubrey wrote:
> Yeah, I agree with most of your opinion. Using PG_slab is really a > quickest way to determine the size of the object. But I think using a > flag named "PG_slab" on a memory algorithm named "slob" seems not > reasonable. It may confuse the people who start to read the kernel > source code. So I'm writing to ask if there is a better solution to > fix the issue.
No, confusing would be a "slab replacement" that doesn't provide the same API as slab and thus requires users to use ifdefs.
I've already suggested exact same thing as David in the exact same situation about 6 months ago. It is the right way to go.
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