[PATCH v4 0/2] mm: slub: Enhanced debugging in slub error
From: Hyesoo Yu
Date: Wed Feb 26 2025 - 03:14:11 EST
Dear Maintainer,
The purpose is to improve the debugging capabilities of the slub allocator
when a error occurs. The following improvements have been made:
- Added WARN() calls at specific locations (slab_err, object_err) to detect
errors effectively and to generate a crash dump if panic_on_warn is enabled.
- Additionally, the error printing location in check_object has been adjusted to
display the broken data before the restoration process. This improvement
allows for a better understanding of how the data was corrupted.
This series combines two patches that were discussed seperately in the links below.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250120082908.4162780-1-hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250120083023.4162932-1-hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Thanks you.
version 2 changes
- Replaced direct calling of BUG_ON with the use of WARN() to trigger a panic.
- Modified the code to print the broken data only once before the restore.
version 3 changes
- Moved WARN() from slab_fix to slab_err and object to call WARN on all error
reporting paths.
- Changed the parameter type of check_bytes_and_report.
version 4 changes
- Modified the print format to include specific error names.
- Removed the redundant warning by removing WARN() in kmem_cache_destroy
Hyesoo Yu (2):
mm: slub: Print the broken data before restoring slub.
mm: slub: call WARN() when the slab detect an error
mm/slab_common.c | 3 ---
mm/slub.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
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