Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:55:02 +0000 (UTC) | From | cl@linux ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two) |
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n Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > There was a public discussion about this issue and from what I can tell > > the outcome was that the allocator already provides what you want. Which > > was a mechanism to misalign objects and detect these issues. This > > mechanism has been in use for over a decade. > > You missed the important part, which was *ENABLED BY DEFAULT*. People > who are enabling a debugging option to debug their issues, should not > have to first debug all the other issues that enabling that debugging > option uncovers!
Why would you have to debug all other issues? You could put your patch on top of the latest stable or distro kernel for testing.
And I thought the rc phase was there for everyone to work on the bugs of each other?
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