linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, v2.

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Message-ID: <16911.1212683185@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:26:25 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, cooloney@...nel.org,
	mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB, v2.


Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> wrote:

> kobjsize() has been abusing page->index as a method for sorting out
> compound order, which blows up both for page cache pages, and SLOB's
> reuse of the index in struct slob_page.
> 
> Presently we are not able to accurately size arbitrary pointers that
> don't come from kmalloc(), so the best we can do is sort out the
> compound order from the head page if it's a compound page, or default
> to 0-order if it's impossible to ksize() the object.
> 
> Obviously this leaves quite a bit to be desired in terms of object
> sizing accuracy, but the behaviour is unchanged over the existing
> implementation, while fixing the page->index oopses originally reported
> here:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=121127773325245&w=2
> 
> Accuracy could also be improved by having SLUB and SLOB both set PG_slab
> on ksizeable pages, rather than just handling the __GFP_COMP cases
> irregardless of the PG_slab setting, as made possibly with Pekka's
> patches:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121139439900534&w=2
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121139440000537&w=2
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121139440000540&w=2
> 
> This is primarily a bugfix for nommu systems for 2.6.26, with the aim
> being to gradually kill off kobjsize() and its particular brand of
> object abuse entirely.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>

With this patch, SLOB now works on my FRV board.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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