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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706011519030.7625@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@...ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@...ibm.com>, pj@....com,
simon.derr@...l.net, clameter@...ulhu.engr.sgi.com,
rientjes@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777
warning
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> If slab was smart enough, it would have poisoned those 8 bytes to some
> known pattern, and then checked that they still had that pattern when the
> memory got freed again.
So this is new feature request?
> But it isn't smart enough, so the bug went undetected.
I should make SLUB put poisoning values in unused areas of a kmalloced
object?
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