Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:41:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free |
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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.
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