Re: kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator

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Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:

> The only tricky part is the timer points back to _this very function_.

OIC.  Brrr.  That _definitely_ needs commenting - as has been demonstrated.
SLOB is using the theoretically one-shot initiator to do garbage collection.

The:

			if (size == PAGE_SIZE) /* trying to shrink arena? */
				return 0;

In slob_alloc() definitely looks very dodgy, now that I see it.  What happens
if some normal user asks to allocate exactly a page?  Oh... I suppose it never
gets into slob_alloc() to allocate the main piece of storage.

David
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