From: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: <stephen@networkplumber.org>, <thomas@monjalon.net>, <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] malloc: don't skip pad on free
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:37:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cec7b521-58cf-3784-ca6f-5d8cd901cf98@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <038143a314345e9c5bf76b1287497a5c4c9f63ed.1531992860.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
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>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-19 16:37 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 [this message]
2018-07-20 9:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
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