On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 08:47:52PM +0000, cl@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 07:17:10PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > > > So if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please express it (preferably > > > > in a formal way such as Acked-by), otherwise it seems the patch will be > > > > dropped (due to a private NACK, apparently). > > > > Oh, I didn't realize ^^^^^^^^^^^^ that *some* of us are allowed the > > privilege of gutting a patch via private NAK without any of that open > > development discussion incovenience. <grumble> > > 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!
