Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

[Pekka Enberg]

On Feb 8, 2008 1:32 AM, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> But the slab layer allocates pages < PAGE_SIZE. You need to take a fault
> right? So each object would need its own page?

No. We allocate a shadow page for each data page which we then use as
a per-byte "bitmap." For every tracked _page_ we take the page fault
always.
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