linux/fs/proc
Christoph Lameter 50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
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array.c [PATCH] tty: update the tty layer to work with struct pid 2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
base.c smaps: add clear_refs file to clear reference 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
generic.c [PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support 2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
inode-alloc.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
inode.c slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
internal.h [PATCH] proc: fix linkage with CONFIG_SYSCTL=y, CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n 2007-04-02 10:06:08 -07:00
kcore.c [PATCH] elf: fix kcore note size calculation 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
kmsg.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] Fix kernel build with EMBEDDED & PROC_FS & !PROC_SYSCTL 2007-03-27 09:05:16 -07:00
mmu.c [PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunk 2005-05-17 07:59:10 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
proc_devtree.c [POWERPC] Make struct property's value a void * 2007-04-13 03:55:18 +10:00
proc_misc.c mm/slab.c: proper prototypes 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
proc_sysctl.c [PATCH] sysctl: hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux 2007-02-14 08:10:00 -08:00
proc_tty.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
root.c [PATCH] proc: fix linkage with CONFIG_SYSCTL=y, CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n 2007-04-02 10:06:08 -07:00
task_mmu.c smaps: add clear_refs file to clear reference 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
task_nommu.c [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6 2007-02-12 09:48:45 -08:00
vmcore.c [PATCH] i386: Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps 2007-05-02 19:27:09 +02:00