Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030365AbWILTZ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030373AbWILTZ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:27053 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030365AbWILTZZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:25:25 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20060912174339.GA19707@waste.org> References: <20060912174339.GA19707@waste.org> <6d6a94c50609032356t47950e40lbf77f15136e67bc5@mail.gmail.com> <17162.1157365295@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <6d6a94c50609042052n4c1803eey4f4412f6153c4a2b@mail.gmail.com> <3551.1157448903@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <6d6a94c50609051935m607f976j942263dd1ac9c4fb@mail.gmail.com> <44FE4222.3080106@yahoo.com.au> <6d6a94c50609120107w1942a8d8j368dd57a271d0250@mail.gmail.com> To: Matt Mackall Cc: Aubrey , Nick Piggin , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@snapgear.com, gerg@snapgear.com Subject: Re: kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:25:04 +0100 Message-ID: <24525.1158089104@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 16 Matt Mackall wrote: > Looking through all the users of kobjsize, it seems we always know > what the type is (and it's usually a VMA). I instead propose we use > ksize on objects we know to be SLAB/SLOB-allocated and add a new > function (kpagesize?) to size other objects where nommu needs it. It sounds like we'd need an op in the VMA to do the per-type size thing (the VMA itself not the VMA ops table). David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/