linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slub: Avoid list corruption when removing a slab from the full list

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Message-ID: <81fc4d8e-fb9f-4e7e-bbb9-dd3f53123398@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:56:47 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@...two.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, "yuan.gao" <yuan.gao@...oud.cn>,
 penberg@...nel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
 roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, 42.hyeyoo@...il.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/slub: Avoid list corruption when removing a slab
 from the full list

On 10/14/24 18:47, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
>> What about:
>>
>> "Slab disabled due to previous consistency check failure" ?
> 
> I think this implies more than we can actually check. We can only check
> the metadata generated by SLUB. The consistency check for the object
> itself does not exist and would have to be done by the subsystem.

"Slab disabled since SLUB metadata consistency check failure" ?