linux-kernel - Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703230757420.21787@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> [... patch changing allocator alloc()/free() to bare page allocations ...]
> > but it crashes early in the page allocator (i386) and I don't see why.  It
> > makes me wonder if we have a use-after-free which is hidden by the presence
> > of the quicklist buffering or something.

Sorry there seems to be some email dropouts today. I am getting 
fragments of slab and quicklist discussions. Maybe I can get the whole story from 
the mailing lists.
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