linux-kernel - [PATCH] SLAB: Mention slab name when listing corrupt objects

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Message-ID: <20070402224628.31682.67979.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:46:28 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] SLAB: Mention slab name when listing corrupt objects

Mention the slab name when listing corrupt objects.  Although the function
that released the memory is mentioned, that is frequently ambiguous as such
functions often release several pieces of memory.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 mm/slab.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 57f7aa4..4cbac24 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1802,8 +1802,8 @@ static void check_poison_obj(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
 			/* Print header */
 			if (lines == 0) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR
-					"Slab corruption: start=%p, len=%d\n",
-					realobj, size);
+					"Slab corruption: %s start=%p, len=%d\n",
+					cachep->name, realobj, size);
 				print_objinfo(cachep, objp, 0);
 			}
 			/* Hexdump the affected line */

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