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Linux 6.11 Brings A Dedicated Bucket Allocator For Better Security
The SLAB pull request landed in Linux 6.11 Git on Thursday with kmem_buckets-based hardening of kernel memory allocations.
The SLAB pull request landed in Linux 6.11 Git on Thursday with kmem_buckets-based hardening of kernel memory allocations. This may very slightly increase memory fragmentation, though in practice it's only a handful of extra pages since the bulk of user-controlled allocations are relatively long-lived." Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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