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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703211342001.13029@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:42:53 +0200 (EET)
From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mpm@...enic.com,
"ast@...dv.de" <ast@...dv.de>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is there in order to handle these nasty and hard to
> debug problems. Usually non-slab pages are not passed to kmem_cache_free.
Yeah, it's probably not a big deal for kmem_cache_free() but if we make
the BUG_ON CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, kfree() loses it as well.
Pekka
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