linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab_common: Support the slub_debug boot option on specific object size

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Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:27:09 +0800
From:	Gavin Guo <gavin.guo@...onical.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab_common: Support the slub_debug boot option on
 specific object size

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2015, Gavin Guo wrote:
>
>> The slub_debug=PU,kmalloc-xx cannot work because in the
>> create_kmalloc_caches() the s->name is created after the
>> create_kmalloc_cache() is called. The name is NULL in the
>> create_kmalloc_cache() so the kmem_cache_flags() would not set the
>> slub_debug flags to the s->flags. The fix here set up a temporary
>> kmalloc_names string array for the initialization purpose. After the
>> kmalloc_caches are already it can be used to create s->name in the
>> kasprintf.
>
> Ok if you do that then the dynamic creation of the kmalloc hostname can
> also be removed. This patch should do that as well.

Thanks for your reply. I put the kmalloc_names in the __initdata
section. And it will be cleaned. Do you think the kmalloc_names should
be put in the global data section to avoid the dynamic creation of the
kmalloc hostname again?

Gavin
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