linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects

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Date:   Sun, 9 May 2021 21:46:03 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     glittao@...il.com
Cc:     cl@...ux.com, penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
        iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, vbabka@...e.cz,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:34:34 +0200 glittao@...il.com wrote:

> Many stack traces are similar so there are many similar arrays.
> Stackdepot saves each unique stack only once.
> 
> Replace field addrs in struct track with depot_stack_handle_t handle.
> Use stackdepot to save stack trace.
> 
> The benefits are smaller memory overhead and possibility to aggregate
> per-cache statistics in the future using the stackdepot handle
> instead of matching stacks manually.

Which tree was this prepared against?  5.12's kmem_obj_info() is
significantly different from the version you were working on.

Please take a look, redo, retest and resend?  Thanks.