Re: + fix-spellings-of-slab-allocator-section-in-init-kconfig.patchadded to -mm tree

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Right. You only need to know blob boundaries for free blobs (so you can
> allocate from or merge to). For allocated blobs, you know the start
> (which is the address of the memory), and the end (which is the start +
> the size contained in kmem_cache structure).

For kmalloc caches you will not have the object size on kfree. In that 
case the slob_t structure is needed before the object.

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