Re: Next June 29: Boot failure with SLQB on s390

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On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 11:06 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Finally, if KMALLOC_SHIFT_SLQB_HIGH is larger than 2MB, then kmalloc_index
> could silently run off the end of its precomputed table and return a -1
> index into the kmalloc slab array, which could result in corruption. Extend
> this to allow up to 32MB (to match SLAB), and add a compile-time error in
> the case that the table is exceeded (also like SLAB).

I wonder if SLQB should just do page allocator pass-through for really
big allocations? That way callers don't need to worry about whether
they're running under SLAB/SLUB/SLOB/SQLB.

			Pekka

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