Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754634AbZGJJig (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:38:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752958AbZGJJi1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:38:27 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36659 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751376AbZGJJi0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:38:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:38:25 +0200 From: Nick Piggin To: David Rientjes Cc: Pekka Enberg , Ingo Molnar , Janboe Ye , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, graydon@redhat.com, fche@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Check write to slab memory which freed already using mudflap Message-ID: <20090710093825.GJ14666@wotan.suse.de> References: <1247156020.27671.40.camel@debian-nb> <84144f020907090944u51f60cbsc0a4ec2c2cbdcc8c@mail.gmail.com> <20090710084745.GA26752@elte.hu> <1247217548.771.10.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1177 Lines: 28 On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 02:31:43AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > I'm not sure what the status of slqb is, although I would have expected it > > > to have been pushed for inclusion in 2.6.31 as a slab allocator > > > alternative. Nick, any forecast for inclusion? > > > > 2.6.32 most likely. Nick has fixed a bunch of problems but there's still > > one ppc boot time bug that's turning out to be hard to find. > > > > Ah, ok, there's still outstanding bugs. I was curious as to why it wasn't > merged as a non-default option that would have perhaps attracted more > attention to it. Don't know whether it should go in as non-default or not. The plan is to kind of kick up a stink and make people care about the slab issue again rather than quietly add more slab allocators to the tree... Perhaps making it non-default for one release would be a good idea, I don't know. -- 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/