Re: [RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 11/21] mm: slub: share slab_err and object_err functions

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Thu Jul 10 2014 - 03:47:03 EST


On 07/09/14 18:29, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>
>> Remove static and add function declarations to mm/slab.h so they
>> could be used by kernel address sanitizer.
>
> Hmmm... This is allocator specific. At some future point it would be good
> to move error reporting to slab_common.c and use those from all
> allocators.
>

I could move declarations to kasan internals, but it will look ugly too.
I also had an idea about unifying SLAB_DEBUG and SLUB_DEBUG at some future.
I can't tell right now how hard it will be, but it seems doable.

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