On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > > > Which fixes the leakage: Objects and Partials then remain stable. > > > > > > Well this code is just an optimization for a rare case. > > > Your patch may not handle the debug situation the right way. > > > > Oh? How? > > If SLAB_DEBUG is set then your patch does not do the proper checks for the > object, tracing information is not written and the poisoning is not done. > See alloc_debug_processing().
Yup, you're right, thanks. I'll followup that version I CC'ed to stable, to stop it and say you'll supply a corrected version. Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/