:On Monday 11 October 2010 14:49:00 Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> Yes, we've been trying to track down various nmalloc issues w/firefox.
:>
:> Somehow nmalloc's magazines are getting corrupted, but I haven't
:> figured out how yet.
:
:What's a "magazine"?
:
:Pierre
We finally found it, thanks in part to the added assertions and your
reporting of the assertion that occured. The problem should be gone
on the latest master.
A magazine in the context of nmalloc is a small cache of free
objects of the same size. Our nmalloc uses magazines in multiple
layers to avoid MP conflicts between threads. The particular layer
that was broken was a fallback layer that wasn't being locked
properly.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
