Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:28:04 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regression: vmalloc easily fail. |
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Nick Piggin wrote: > Right... that was to add a guard page like the old vmalloc allocator. > vmallocs still add their extra page too, so most of them will have > a 2 page guard area, but I didn't think this would hurt significantly. > > I'm not against the patch, but I wonder exactly what is filling it up > and how? (can you look at the vmalloc proc function to find out?
Maybe we're allocating two guard pages, but freeing only one?
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