linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: warning if total alloc size overflow

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1202141009130.3795@tux.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:10:30 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Yang Bai <hamo.by@...il.com>
cc:	cl@...ux-foundation.org, mpm@...enic.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: warning if total alloc size overflow

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Yang Bai wrote:
> I did not find anything like SLAB_OVERFLOW using grep. Could you
> explain it more in detail?

You should add a new config option to lib/Kconfig.debug and wrap the debug 
check with it.

 			Pekka
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