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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB's krealloc() seems bust
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:10:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223395846.26330.55.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223391655.13453.344.camel@calx>

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:00 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> Give this a try, please:
> 
> diff -r 5e32b09a1b2b mm/slob.c
> --- a/mm/slob.c Fri Oct 03 14:04:43 2008 -0500
> +++ b/mm/slob.c Tue Oct 07 10:00:16 2008 -0500
> @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@
>  
>         sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(block);
>         if (slob_page(sp))
> -               return ((slob_t *)block - 1)->units + SLOB_UNIT;
> +               return (((slob_t *)block - 1)->units - 1) * SLOB_UNIT;
>         else
>                 return sp->page.private;
>  }

That seems to make it work again! (4 reboots, 0 crashes)

Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Thanks!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-07 13:57 Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 14:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-07 14:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 14:26     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-07 15:00   ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-07 15:20     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-07 15:58       ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-07 16:10     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-10-07 16:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-07 16:37       ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-07 16:57         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-07 17:13           ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-07 17:31             ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-07 23:08               ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-08  4:22                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08  4:46                   ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-08  4:54                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08  5:11                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08  5:15                         ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-08  6:43                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-08  7:25                             ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-08  7:37                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-08  7:39                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-07 17:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-07 18:11           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 18:18             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-08 19:51               ` Matt Mackall

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