This is a preperatory patch for the debugobjects infrastructure. The flag prevents debug_free checks on kmem_caches. This is necessary to avoid resursive calls into a debug mechanism which uses a kmem_cache itself. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/slab.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slab.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ #define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */ #define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */ +/* Flag to prevent checks on free */ +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS +# define SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS 0x00400000UL +#else +# define SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS 0x00000000UL +#endif + /* The following flags affect the page allocator grouping pages by mobility */ #define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* Objects are reclaimable */ #define SLAB_TEMPORARY SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT /* Objects are short-lived */ -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/