On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:32:30AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> The primary purpose of this was to debug some use-after-free memory
> corruption that was causing an OOPS inside drm/i915. As it turned out
> the corruption was being caused elsewhere and i915.ko as a major user of
> many objects was being hit hardest.
> 
> Indeed as we do frequent the generic kmalloc caches, dedicating one to
> ourselves (or at least naming one for us depending upon the core) aids
> debugging our own slab usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <[email protected]>

Slurped in thus far, safe for the three patches I've already mentioned in
the previous reply.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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