Re: PATCH: two slab-like memory allocators

On 02/27/2017 06:40 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2017-02-27 18:04:41 +0100, Petr Jelinek wrote:
>> On 27/02/17 18:00, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>
>>>> FWIW I think the ppc64 machines are failing because of unrelated issue
>>>> (changes to integer timestamps). We should probably look at 32bit machines
>>>> first.
>>>
>>> Don't think so - termite is ppc64 afaics, and the failure doesn't look
>>> integer timestamp related (assert failure is clearly about this, and set
>>> of changed commits *only* include slab related commits).
>>>
>>
>> termite is ppc64 but with 4 byte pointer size according to configure so
>> it might be related to that perhaps?
>
> Uh, ok. I checked the --configure options, but not the actual configure
> output (blame -ENOCOFEE and jetlag). The output makes it fairly likely
> that my StandardChunkHeader theory is valid, so I'll work on a patch to
> clean that up.
>

Thanks. I set up a rpi3 machine (amrv7l) that fails with the same issue,
so if you need to test the patch, let me know.

While building, I've also noticed a bunch of warnings about string
formatting, attached is a patch that that fixes those.

regards

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