Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:48:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> afacit that two-year-old, totally-different patch has nothing to do with my
> repeatedly-asked question.  It appears to be consolidating three separate
> quicklist allocators into one common implementation.
> In an attempt to answer my own question (and hence to justify the retention
> of this custom allocator) I did this:
[... patch changing allocator alloc()/free() to bare page allocations ...]
> but it crashes early in the page allocator (i386) and I don't see why.  It
> makes me wonder if we have a use-after-free which is hidden by the presence
> of the quicklist buffering or something.

Sorry I flubbed the first message. Anyway this does mean something is
seriously wrong and needs to be debugged. Looking into it now.


-- wli
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