Hello, On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kent Overstreet <koverstr...@google.com> wrote: > But if it's a pointer to heap allocated memory, but the bio was embedded > in another struct? I've seen a fair number of instances of that (md, off > the top of my head). > > If you're sure that in a normal config the slab allocator is going to > complain right away and not corrupt itself, fine. But I've been bitten > way too hard by bugs that could've been caught right away by a simple > assert and instead I had to spend hours backtracking, and the block > layer is _rife_ with that kind of thing.
Let's let slab debug code deal with that. I really don't see much benefit in doing this. The said kind of bugs aren't particularly difficult to track down. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
