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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: don't skip pad on free
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:27:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2958510.WtYFjzW1qE@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cec7b521-58cf-3784-ca6f-5d8cd901cf98@solarflare.com>

19/07/2018 18:37, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 19.07.2018 12:42, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> > Previously, we were skipping erasing pad because we were
> > expecting it to be freed when we were merging adjacent
> > segments. However, if there were no adjacent segments to
> > merge, we would've skipped erasing the pad, leaving non-zero
> > memory in our free space.
> >
> > Fix this by including pad in the erasing unconditionally.
> >
> > Fixes: e43a9f52b7ff ("malloc: fix pad erasing")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Reported-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> 
> Many thanks, the patch fixes the problem I've observed.
> 
> Tested-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>

Applied, thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2018-07-20  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-19  9:42 [PATCH] malloc: don't skip pad on free Anatoly Burakov
2018-07-19 16:37 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-07-20  9:27   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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