On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:32:30AM +0000, Chris Wilson 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> > Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> > Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> Slurped in thus far, safe for the three patches I've already mentioned in the previous reply. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
