Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 22:11:38 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] SLOB: make ksize() more strict for page allocator pass-through |
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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.
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