lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Mar]   [20]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 3/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > The BUG_ON (at least) should probably be moved into CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.
>
> No it shouldn't. Letting non-slab pages pass through causes nasty and
> hard to debug problems which is why we have the BUG_ONs in the first
> place:

CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is there in order to handle these nasty and hard to
debug problems. Usually non-slab pages are not passed to kmem_cache_free.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-03-20 19:47    [W:0.154 / U:0.056 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site