linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705021233240.1543@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 12:34:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, haveblue@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> > I am the one who has to maintain SLAB and SLUB it seems and I have been
> > dealing with the trio SLAB, SLOB and SLUB for awhile now. Its okay and it
> > will be much easier once the cleanups are in.
> 
> And then there's patches such as kmemleak which would need to target
> all three. Plus it doesn't really make sense for users to select
> between three competiting implementations. Please don't take away our
> high hopes of getting rid of mm/slab.c Christoph =)

SLUB supports kmemleak (actually its quite improved). Switch debugging on 
and try

cat /sys/slab/kmalloc-128/alloc_calls.

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