Re: [RFC][PATCH] Check write to slab memory which freed already using mudflap

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Fri Jul 10 2009 - 05:38:36 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:31:43AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> > > I'm not sure what the status of slqb is, although I would have expected it
> > > to have been pushed for inclusion in 2.6.31 as a slab allocator
> > > alternative. Nick, any forecast for inclusion?
> >
> > 2.6.32 most likely. Nick has fixed a bunch of problems but there's still
> > one ppc boot time bug that's turning out to be hard to find.
> >
>
> Ah, ok, there's still outstanding bugs. I was curious as to why it wasn't
> merged as a non-default option that would have perhaps attracted more
> attention to it.

Don't know whether it should go in as non-default or not. The plan
is to kind of kick up a stink and make people care about the slab
issue again rather than quietly add more slab allocators to the
tree...

Perhaps making it non-default for one release would be a good idea,
I don't know.

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