Another issue that occurred to me last night is that the size of objects allocated with SLOB's slab-like API are implicit and not calculable from the object. kmalloc'ed objects, in contrast, have a header that contains the object size. So ksize(kmalloc(...)) works, but not ksize(kmem_cache_alloc(...)). I don't know if anything in the kernel is using the latter aside from kobjsize. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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