[Crash-utility] crash-7.3.2 very long list iteration progressively increasing memory usage

Jeremy Harris jgh at redhat.com
Fri Jun 29 11:04:08 UTC 2018


On 06/28/2018 11:09 PM, David Wysochanski wrote:
> One problem with all of these non-storage location algorithms is that
> it won't give you the precise location of the start of the loop in the
> list (i.e. the one with the corrupted 'prev' list entry.
> 
> I am not sure if this is a show stopper but that is fairly important
> information in most instances.

Um, one list-walker checking the back-pointer against where it
just came from would seem to suffice for that?
-- 
Jeremy




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