Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Nov 2007 12:26:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage |
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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > Which fixes the leakage: Objects and Partials then remain stable. > > > > Well this code is just an optimization for a rare case. > > Your patch may not handle the debug situation the right way. > > Oh? How?
If SLAB_DEBUG is set then your patch does not do the proper checks for the object, tracing information is not written and the poisoning is not done. See alloc_debug_processing().
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