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    Slab: head now uses bitmask for used/free nodes info instead of lists · 886dd92e
    Maria Matejka authored
    From now, there are no auxiliary pointers stored in the free slab nodes.
    This led to strange debugging problems if use-after-free happened in
    slab-allocated structures, especially if the structure's first member is
    a next pointer.
    
    This also reduces the memory needed by 1 pointer per allocated object.
    OTOH, we now rely on pages being aligned to their size's multiple, which
    is quite common anyway.
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