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Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 18:55:39 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: clameter@....com Cc: mpm@...enic.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patch added to -mm tree From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 18:53:28 -0700 (PDT) > On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > SLOB seems to look at the descriptor in the previous blob to figure > > out how big the being-freed blob is. That's actually kind of clever > > :-) > > We were assuming that the objects are actually allocated. How does it > figure out the previous blobs boundaries without metadata? The page is filled entirely with descriptors in the not-in-use regions of the page aparently. So "freed_object - 1" will always give you a descriptor. I'm just reading over the code to figure out what to type to you, you could read the code too it's not very complicated :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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