linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve dump_page() output for slab pages

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Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 15:11:43 +0100
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Sukrit Bhatnagar <Sukrit.Bhatnagar@...y.com>
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	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve dump_page() output for slab pages

On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 04:46:27PM +0900, Sukrit Bhatnagar wrote:
> On the other hand, the struct slab has kmem_cache which maintains another set
> of flags. It would be nice to have these flags added as a part of the debug
> output, and to have a convenient way to print them.

I don't understand why the slab cache flags are the interesting thing.
Seems to me it'd be more useful to print slab->slab_cache->name and
then you'd be able to look up the flags from that, as well as get a lot
more information.