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?
