Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:41:26 +0300 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26 |
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Hi Andrew,
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > Thank you whoever wrote kmemcheck.txt
That would be Vegard.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > How come slub uses one byte to track the status of each byte when it could > use a single bit?
Single bit is not enough as we track use after free as well (after we've added delayed freeing to the beast).
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > We (still!) have not made the decision whether to proceed with slab or > slub. How hard would it be to port kmemcheck into slab?
Not hard.
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