On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:48:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > afacit that two-year-old, totally-different patch has nothing to do with my > repeatedly-asked question. It appears to be consolidating three separate > quicklist allocators into one common implementation. > In an attempt to answer my own question (and hence to justify the retention > of this custom allocator) I did this: [... patch changing allocator alloc()/free() to bare page allocations ...] > but it crashes early in the page allocator (i386) and I don't see why. It > makes me wonder if we have a use-after-free which is hidden by the presence > of the quicklist buffering or something.
Sorry I flubbed the first message. Anyway this does mean something is seriously wrong and needs to be debugged. Looking into it now. -- wli - 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/
