linux-kernel - slub: fixed uninitialized counter in struct kmem_cache

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Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:25:41 -0700
From:	sqazi@...gle.com (Salman Qazi)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: slub: fixed uninitialized counter in struct kmem_cache_node


Initialized total objects atomic for the node in init_kmem_cache_node.  The uninitialized value was ruining the stats in /proc/slabinfo.

Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
---

--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1932,6 +1932,7 @@ init_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache_node *n, struct kmem_cache *s)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&n->partial);
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
 	atomic_long_set(&n->nr_slabs, 0);
+	atomic_long_set(&n->total_objects, 0);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&n->full);
 #endif
 }

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