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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penberg@kernel.org,
	mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: Memory allocator semantics
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:07:58 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1402101304110.17517@nuc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F60699.8010204@iki.fi>

On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> So to be completely honest, I don't understand what is the race in (A) that
> concerns the *memory allocator*.  I also don't what the memory allocator can
> do in (B) and (C) which look like double-free and use-after-free,
> respectively, to me. :-)

Well it seems to be some academic mind game to me.

Does an invocation of the allocator have barrier semantics or not?




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-10 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-02 20:33 Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-03  3:39 ` Josh Triplett
2014-01-03  5:14   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-03  5:47     ` Josh Triplett
2014-01-03  7:57       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-01-03  8:42         ` Josh Triplett
2014-02-08 10:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2014-02-09  2:00   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-11  8:50     ` Pekka Enberg
2014-02-11 12:09       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-11 18:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-02-14 17:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-10 19:07   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-02-11 12:14     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-11 13:20       ` Pekka Enberg
2014-02-11 15:01         ` Paul E. McKenney

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