linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB

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Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:16:01 +0800
From:   Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vbabka@...e.cz, 42.hyeyoo@...il.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG

Since commit ab4d5ed5eeda ("slub: Enable sysfs support for
!CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG"), disabling SLUB_DEBUG also disables
SLUB sysfs support that is not true anymore, so fix it correctly.

Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@...il.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig.debug | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index c3547a373c9c..9a90a88ce053 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG
 	select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 	help
 	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
-	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
-	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
-	  no support for cache validation etc.
+	  result in significant savings in code size, the /sys/kernel/slab
+	  will exist but will not provide e.g. cache validation.
 
 config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
 	bool "SLUB debugging on by default"
-- 
2.34.1