Re: [PATCH v6] mm: slub: move sysfs slab alloc/free interfaces to debugfs

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 18 2021 - 09:29:03 EST


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:15:49PM +0530, Faiyaz Mohammed wrote:
> alloc_calls and free_calls implementation in sysfs have two issues,
> one is PAGE_SIZE limitiation of sysfs and other is it does not adhere
> to "one value per file" rule.
>
> To overcome this issues, move the alloc_calls and free_calls implemeation
> to debugfs.
>
> Rename the alloc_calls/free_calls to alloc_traces/free_traces,
> to be inline with what it does.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Faiyaz Mohammed <faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/slub_def.h | 8 ++
> mm/slab_common.c | 9 ++
> mm/slub.c | 359 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 3 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)

If this is v6, what happened in v1-5? That should always be below the
--- line, right?