Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753631AbZGJJqi (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:46:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751541AbZGJJqb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:46:31 -0400 Received: from courier.cs.helsinki.fi ([128.214.9.1]:56821 "EHLO mail.cs.helsinki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348AbZGJJqb (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:46:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Check write to slab memory which freed already using mudflap From: Pekka Enberg To: David Rientjes Cc: Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Janboe Ye , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, graydon@redhat.com, fche@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: References: <1247156020.27671.40.camel@debian-nb> <84144f020907090944u51f60cbsc0a4ec2c2cbdcc8c@mail.gmail.com> <20090710084745.GA26752@elte.hu> <1247215920.32044.3.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090710090351.GD14666@wotan.suse.de> <1247217263.771.8.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090710092921.GF14666@wotan.suse.de> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:46:29 +0300 Message-Id: <1247219189.771.19.camel@penberg-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 23 Hi David, On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 02:41 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > The reason why I'd like to see slqb merged as a non-default alternative is > because it exposes the allocator to more benchmarking coverage than would > be possible in any other environment and attracts much more attention to > development for those who don't pull Pekka's tree directly. Yes, we can do that. But I'm not going to ask Linus to pull something that has known _boot-time_ bugs (that we haven't been able to figure out in over three months!) because it's a pretty clear indication that we're not on top of things yet. So if you want to fast-track SLQB, feel free to help out Nick in debugging that sucker ;). Pekka -- 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/