Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] slub: Force on no_hash_pointers when slub_debug is enabled

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 15:27:43 EST


Quoting Petr Mladek (2021-05-26 06:47:23)
> On Wed 2021-05-26 12:48:47, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 5/26/21 4:56 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Obscuring the pointers that slub shows when debugging makes for some
> > > confusing slub debug messages:
> > >
> > > Padding overwritten. 0x0000000079f0674a-0x000000000d4dce17
> > >
> > > I opted for extern because I guess we don't want to advertise
> > > no_hash_pointers_enable() in some sort of header file? It can be put in
> > > a header file
> >
> > Hm looks like the bots disagree. I suppose a declaration right above definition
> > in lib/vsprintf.c would silence them, but I'll leave it to printk maintainers if
> > they would prefer that way or traditionally
> > include/linux/kernel.h
>
> I slightly prefer to put it into kernel.h. I expect that some more
> debugging facilities would want to enable this in the future.
> But I would accept even the "ugly" declaration in vsprintf.c.

Ok no problem. Would printk.h be more appropriate?