Re: [PATCH] nommu: fix kobjsize() for SLOB and SLUB

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Sun Jun 01 2008 - 07:24:28 EST


On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 01:29:39PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:13:02PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> >>I mean, assuming the BUG_ON bits are bogus, then we should always pass
> >>the pointer to the allocator. I audited most of the callers and they all
> >>seem to be really just using kmalloc() for allocation anyway.
> >>
> >>What do you think?
>
> Paul Mundt wrote:
> >Isn't this what my original patch did? ;-)
>
> Oh, almost, you had this bit in ksize() of SLAB:
>
> + page = virt_to_head_page(objp);
> + if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page)))
> + return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page);
>
> Did you actually need it for something?
>
Not that I recall, it was just for consistency with SLUB. I'll have to
re-test though, as I'm not sure if it was necessary or not.
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