linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/slub: Fix count

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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:32:17 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.de>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Shu Ming <sming56@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        James Wang <jnwang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/slub: Fix count_partial() problem

On 3/16/21 11:07 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Yang Shi wrote:
> 
>> > It seems like CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is a more popular option than CONFIG_SLUB_STATS.
>> > CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled on my Fedora workstation, CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is off.
>> > I doubt an average user needs this data, so I'd go with CONFIG_SLUB_STATS.

Hm I can imagine that (after due performance testing) we would consider having
accurate slabinfo in our distro kernel, just as we have CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG but
not the full stats.

>> I think CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled by default on most distros since
>> it is supposed not incur too much overhead unless specific debug (i.e.
>> red_zone) is turned on on demand.
> 
> Correct. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG includes the code so the debugging can be
> enabled on Distro kernels with a kernel command line option. So you dont
> have to recompile the kernel to find weird memory corruption issues from
> strange device drivers.
> 
> Somehow my email address dropped off this thread.

Hm I see cl@...ux.com in all e-mails of the thread, but now you replaced it with
cl@...two.de ?