linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SLUB: detach SLUB

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Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 02:02:47 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLUB: detach SLUB_DEBUG and SYSFS

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:10:37PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>>> Right now, SYSFS=n means no SLUB debugging, no even basic poisoning,
>>>> to hell with tunables.
>>> Applied, thanks!
>> Do not apply. This partially reverts an earlier commit and would cause 
>> build
>> issues because the #ifdef parts in slub.c were not reverted.
>
> Aww, crap. OK, taking it out.

OK, I'll test-compile it to death.

For now, do you agree that SYSFS=n users shouldn't be discriminated
against poisoning?

As real world situation, NET_NS feature which is currently in
active development doesn't work with SYSFS, so it was a bit of cold
shower to realise that I did much testing of conntracking in netns
without poisoning. :-(

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