Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777warning

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Well there are architectural problems. We determine the power of two slab 
> at compile time. The object size information is currently not available in 
> the binary :=).
>   

That only applies to allocations with constant sizes. One presumes
nobody is explicitly doing kmalloc(0), so we can use a separate
runtime-computed-size path to do poisoning. (Which is probably 90% of
the problem, since people who kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo)) will generally
stay within bounds without too much effort.)

J
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