Testing Slob Allocator

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Linux Kernel hast three memory allocator named SLOB, SLAB and SLUB. SLOB allocator is the memory allocator that is used to allocate small amount of memory for Linux kernel objects. Linux kernel objects are different from user mode objects. So we can’t use a user mode application for testing SLOB allocator. For example, if we modify the algorithm used in SLOB … Continued