On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > I don't know what you mean. If someone allocates 10000 objects with sizes > from 1 to 10000, you can't have 10000 slab caches - you can't have a slab > cache for each used size. Also - you can't create a slab cache in > interrupt context. Oh you can create them up front on bootup. And I think only the small sizes matter. Allocations >=8K are pushed to the page allocator anyways. > > We already have a redzone structure to check for writes over the end of > > the object. Lets use that. > > So, change all three slab subsystems to use that. SLOB has no debugging features and I think that was intentional. We are trying to unify the debug checks etc. Some work on that would be appreciated. I think the kmalloc creation is already in slab_common.c -- 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>