Re: [RFC 01/15] slub: Create sysfs field /sys/slab/<cache>/ops

From: Tobin C. Harding
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 21:19:54 EST


On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:23:27PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:14:12PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > Create an ops field in /sys/slab/*/ops to contain all the callback
> > operations defined for a slab cache. This will be used to display
> > the additional callbacks that will be defined soon to enable movable
> > objects.
> >
> > Display the existing ctor callback in the ops fields contents.
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Tobin!
>
> > ---
> > mm/slub.c | 13 +++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> > index dc777761b6b7..69164aa7cbbf 100644
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > @@ -5009,13 +5009,18 @@ static ssize_t cpu_partial_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf,
> > }
> > SLAB_ATTR(cpu_partial);
> >
> > -static ssize_t ctor_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
> > +static ssize_t ops_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
> > {
> > + int x = 0;
> > +
> > if (!s->ctor)
> > return 0;
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You can drop this part, can't you?
>
> Also, it's not clear (without looking into following patches) why do you
> make this refactoring. So, please, add a note, or move this change into
> the patch 3.

No worries, thanks for looking at this. Will amend the commit message
and drop the constructor check.

thanks,
Tobin