linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc

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Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2022 09:33:14 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Cc:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of
 kmalloc

On 9/5/22 09:06, Feng Tang wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 02:29:51PM +0800, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> 
>> How about get_partial() instantiates an on-stack structure that contains
>> gfpflags, ret_slab, orig_size and passes pointer to that to all the nested
>> functions.
>> 
>> Would be similar to "struct alloc_context" in page allocation.
>> Something like "struct partial_context pc"?
> 
> Yep! This would make the parameters passing much tidier. Will try
> this way. 
> 
> More aggressively is to also embed the 'kmem_cache' parameter into
> it, but this may make the code look ambiguous.

That one is used a lot everywhere, so it would be tedious to dereference it
from a struct, and also might be a bit better code if it's in a register.

> Thanks,
> Feng
> 
>