Re: [PATCH 2/2] SLUB: Disable debugging if it increases theminimum page order

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Thu Jun 11 2009 - 10:00:35 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:43 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We have had that with SLAB. NO! This leads to the situation that some
> slabs have debug on and some have not. You just do not know which.

I do see your point but surely we don't want to use order 1 allocations
in the fall-back case for kmalloc-4096? Couldn't we just add a printk
saying that debug was disabled for the cache? After all, my patch is
much better than what SLAB does.

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:43 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Note that CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG only enables the code to debug a slab. It does
> not enable debugging for each slab. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON does that.

True. Larry, do you have CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON enabled or are you passing
SLUB debugging options to the kernel?

Pekka

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