On 07/19/2013 09:57 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Chen Gang F T wrote: > >> > Yes, "'max' can roughly mean the same thing", but they are still a >> > little different. >> > >> > 'max' also means: "the caller tells callee: I have told you the >> > maximize buffer length, so I need not check the buffer length to be >> > sure of no memory overflow, you need be sure of it". >> > >> > 'size' means: "the caller tells callee: you should use the size which I >> > give you, I am sure it is OK, do not care about whether it can cause >> > memory overflow or not". > Ok that makes sense. > Thanks. >> > The diff may like this: > I am fine with such a patch. > If suitable, I should send the related patch for it. Is it necessary to send the related patch for it ? > Ultimately I would like the tracking and debugging technology to be > abstracted from the slub allocator and made generally useful by putting it > into mm/slab_common.c. SLAB has similar things but does not have all the > features. > At least for me, it is reasonable and necessary. If possible, I'd like to do with it. Excuse me, I have to do another things within this month. If really may let me do, I should finish within next month (2013-08-31), is it OK ? Thanks. -- Chen Gang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>