Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm: poison page struct

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Dave Hansen wrote:

> Does this break slub's __cmpxchg_double_slab trick?  I thought it
> required page->freelist and page->counters to be doubleword-aligned.

Sure that would be required for it to work.

> It's not like we really require this optimization when we're debugging,
> but trying to use it will unnecessarily slow things down.

Debugging by inserting more data into the page struct will already cause a
significant slow down because the cache footprint of key functions will
increase significantly. I would think that using the fallback functions
is reasonable in this scenario,
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