linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:12:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@...ebsd.org>
cc:	penberg@...nel.org, suleiman@...gle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:

> Currently, when using CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, we put in kfree() or
> kmem_cache_free() as the last user of free objects, which is not
> very useful, so change it to the caller of those functions instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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