On 07/22/2013 08:42 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:57:28PM +0000, 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. >> >>> The diff may like this: >> >> I am fine with such a patch. >> >> 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. > > Coincidence, I am doing this work recently and will post patches soon. > ;-) > Thanks. :-) > Regards, > Wanpeng Li > >> >> -- >> 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> > > > -- 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>