Re: [PATCH] SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, David Rientjes wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
>
> > Currently, when using CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, we put in kfree() or
> > kmem_cache_free() as the last user of free objects, which is not
> > very useful, so change it to the caller of those functions instead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Well note that this increases the overhead of a hot code path. But slub
does the same

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

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