Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 16:21:05 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB |
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On Thu, 29 May 2008, David Howells wrote: > ELF-FDPIC is currently using kobjsize() so that it can expand the heap/stack > segment to fill up the entirety of its allocation. It's probably worth > dropping that, though. > > NOMMU mmap() is using kobjsize()/ksize() to keep track of the number of bytes > allocated and the amount of dead space. We can probably ditch that too. > > However, fs/proc/task_nommu.c uses kobjsize() quite a bit to determine how > much metadata space a process is carrying around. We could just use sizeof(), > I suppose, and not bother calculating the slack.
For short term, we should merge my two nommu patches as-is, no?
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