[PATCH v12 1/2] malloc: add tcache support for large chunk caching

Wilco Dijkstra Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Tue Jul 8 17:55:29 GMT 2025


Hi,

> Thanks for verifying it.
> Actually I tried the same with 2.41 release ... hang still happens there.
>
> Any chance this is an actual race in scanimage or other used library ?

It hangs in malloc code, so it's either corruption of the malloc lock or
a race condition in malloc code. Eg. reused_arena has several FIXME for
race conditions...

Cheers,
Wilco


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