linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/8] mm/slub: Add SLUB

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:20:44 -0400
From:	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>
To:	penberg@...helsinki.fi, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	mpm@...enic.com
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...izon.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] mm/slub: Add SLUB_RANDOMIZE support

As a followup to the "[PATCH] Make /proc/slabinfo 0400" thread, this
is a patch series to randomize the order of object allocations within
a page.  It can be extended to SLAB and SLOB if desired.  Mostly it's
for benchmarking and discussion.

It Boots For Me(tm).

Patches 1-4 and 8 touch drivers/char/random.c, to add support for
efficiently generating a series of uniform random integers in small
ranges.  Is this okay with Herbert & Matt?

I did a bit of code cleanup while I was at it, but kept it to separate
patches.  Patches 4 and 7 are the heart of the new code, but I'd
particularly like comments on patch 8, as I don't understand the kconfig
stuff very well.  Is the feature description good and are the control
knobs adequate?

Checkpatch complains about a too-short CONFIG option description on
8/8; I think it's spurious.
--
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/