On 21/10/2017 13.02, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
Add sparse-checked slab_flags_t for struct kmem_cache::flags
(SLAB_POISON, etc).
SLAB is bloated temporarily by switching to "unsigned long",
but only temporarily.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
by: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Hi,
On Feb 2, 2008 8:25 PM, Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +//static __be16 el3_phys_addr[EL3_MAX_CARDS][3];
[snip]
> +//#if defined(CONFIG_MCA) || defined(CONFIG_EISA)
[snip]
> +// while (el3_probe(el3_cards) == 0) {
> +// if (irq[el3_cards] > 1)
> +//
Hi Richard,
On Dec 10, 2007 9:29 PM, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Remove local definition of TRUE/FALSE.
This is already fixed in Francois' tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2af61e99e3d1c959840ea007ff56b15db794fb99
Hi Michael,
On Monday 05 November 2007 13:23:50 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled? Usually these kind of random corruptions
> > are caused by someone passing a bad pointer to kfree() or
> > kmem_cache_free().
On 11/5/07, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROT
Hi Michael,
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:06 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Who is responsible for slab btw?
> I mean, someone should be interested in getting this bug fixed. :)
> When using slab I see random corruptions. I think related to rmmod, but
> I'm not sure. I don't see this with slub.
Is CON
Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
Again, slab has no way of actually estimating how many pages you need for a
given number of objects. So we end up calculating some upper bound which
doesn't belong in mm/slab.c. I am perfectly okay with:
It can give a
Christoph Lameter wrote:
SLAB can calculate exactly how many pages are needed. The per
cpu and per node stuff is setup at boot and does not change. We are
talking about the worst case scenario here. True in case of an off slab
we have additional overhead that would also have to go into worst cas
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 11:30 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Hmmm... Maybe lets have
>
> unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *slab_cache, int objects)
>
> which would calculate the worst case memory scenario for allocation the
> number of indicated objects?
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Pete
Christoph Lameter wrote:
Hmmm... Maybe lets have
unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *slab_cache, int objects)
which would calculate the worst case memory scenario for allocation the
number of indicated objects?
IIRC this looks more or less what Peter had initially. I don't like t
On 5/4/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Expost buffer_size in order to allow fair estimates on the actual space
used/needed.
[snip]
#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_FAIR
-static inline int slab_alloc_rank(gfp_t flags)
+static __always_inline int slab_alloc_rank(gfp_t flags)
{
return
On 3/12/07, Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, maybe it's less evil to check those NULLs where possible and add
some WARN_ONs here and there...
No, it's much better to oops rather than paper over a bug.
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Hi,
On 3/12/07, Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- tulip-2.6-mm-linux.orig/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
+++ tulip-2.6-mm-linux/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
#define DRV_NAME "tulip"
#ifdef CONFIG_TULIP_NAPI
-#define DRV_VERSION"1.1.14-NAPI" /* Keep
On 2/22/07, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So you are only interested in rough estimation of how much many pages
you need for a given amount of objects? Why not use ksize() for that
then?
Uhm, I obviously meant, why not expose obj_size() instead.
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Hi Peter,
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:47 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> So how does this work? You ask the slab allocator how many pages you
> need for a given number of objects and then those pages are available
> to it via the page allocator? Can other users also dip into those
> rese
Hi Peter,
On 2/21/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Provide a method to calculate the number of pages needed to store a given
number of slab objects (upper bound when considering possible partial and
free slabs).
So how does this work? You ask the slab allocator how many pages you
On 2/21/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Yes please. I would really like to know what we gain by making the
slab even more complex.
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Hi Jesse,
On 8/17/06, Jesse Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Jesse Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
update maintainer information
Change Logs:
update maintainer information
The patches are missing signed-off-by so please resend. I am starting
my vacation on friday so I suggest you send th
On 7/9/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+struct kevent *kevent_alloc(gfp_t mask)
+{
+ struct kevent *k;
+
+ if (kevent_cache)
+ k = kmem_cache_alloc(kevent_cache, mask);
+ else
+ k = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kevent), mask);
+
+ retur
Hi David,
On 5/21/06, David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did anyone manage to get a response from IC Plus regarding the required
Signed-off-by line?
The current IP1000A driver maintainer at IC Plus is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no received confirmation if he can sign
off or not yet.
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> [...]
> > maintain the tree, I can send you my patches so you can recreate the full
> > history. The first steps were produced by quilt on the original
> > out-of-tree driver, though, so they're probably not helpful.
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 01:35 +0200, Franc
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> [...]
> > Is this tested with hardware?
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 20:33 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> No.
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 20:33 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > Alignment of the start address looks bogus for sure, but any idea
> > why they had it in the
t 2.5 MHz (the maximum according to the
datasheet) instead of 500 Hz. (David)
The patch is 128 KB in size, so I am not including it in this
mail. You can find the patch here:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/ip1000-driver.patch
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:40 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Still pending. Also:
>
> - something (PHY reset/auto negotiation?) takes 2-3 seconds and
>appears to be done with interrupts disabled.
Are you seeing this at module initialization? Does Sysrq-t show anything
useful?
don't know if I broke anything.
The patch is 128 KB in size, so I am not including it in this
mail. You can find the patch here:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/ip1000-driver.patch
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 14:21 +0200, David Gómez wrote:
> > I already had it modified, just needed to create the patch... Anyway,
> > have you submitted it to netdev?
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 23:35 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> No, I haven't. I don't have the hardware, s
Hi David,
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 14:21 +0200, David Gómez wrote:
> I already had it modified, just needed to create the patch... Anyway,
> have you submitted it to netdev?
No, I haven't. I don't have the hardware, so I can't test the driver.
Furthermore, there's plenty of stuff to fix before it's
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, David Gómezz wrote:
> > Ok, i could take care of that, and it's a good way of getting my hands
> > dirty with kernel programming ;). David, if it's ok to you i'll do the
> > cleanup thing.
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:59 +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> Here are some suggestions for
On 4/28/06, David Gómez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I could help. What things do you think need to be fixed before
> submitting the driver?
Needs some serious coding style cleanup and conversion to proper 2.6
APIs for starters.
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:23:19PM +0200, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > Hmm. Either I am totally confused or we don't even attempt suspend/resume
> > for eisa and mca bus devices. Care to try this patch?
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:40 +, Russell King wrote:
> Please don't use struct device_driver su
Hi,
I am looking for someone with 3c509 netword card that can do
suspend/resume to test this patch.
Pekka
Subject: 3c509: use proper suspend/resume API
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch converts 3c509 driver to use proper suspend/resume API inst
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