On Wednesday 31 October 2007 23:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 21:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

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> > And I'd prevent these ones from doing so.
> >
> > Without keeping track of "reserve" pages, which doesn't feel
> > too clean.
>
> The problem with that is that once a slab was allocated with the right
> allocation context, anybody can get objects from these slabs.

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I understand that.


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> So we either reserve a page per object, which for 32 byte objects is a
> large waste, or we stop anybody who doesn't have the right permissions
> from obtaining objects. I took the latter approach.

What I'm saying is that the slab allocator slowpath should always
just check watermarks against the current task. Instead of this
->reserve stuff.
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