On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:31:18 +0100 Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > The primary purpose of this was to debug some use-after-free memory > corruption that was causing an OOPS inside drm/i915. As it turned out > the corruption was being caused elsewhere and i915.ko as a major user > of many objects was being hit hardest. > > Indeed as we do frequent the generic kmalloc caches, dedicating one to > ourselves (or at least naming one for us depending upon the core) aids > debugging our own slab usage. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> Acked-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> -- Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
