On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, David Rientjes wrote: > I don't see how that's different from enabling debugging on all caches > like CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG_ON currently does and then warning at the time of > slab allocation failure that it may be the result of the debugging > metadata so the user can subsequently prevent it. In other words, if we > use MAX_DEBUG_SIZE as Pekka originally implemented as > (3 * sizeof(void *) + 2 * sizeof(struct track)), do this: I like it. > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c > --- a/mm/slub.c > +++ b/mm/slub.c > @@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ > SLAB_POISON | SLAB_STORE_USER) > > /* > + * The maximum amount of metadata added to a slab when debugging is enabled. > + */ > +#define MAX_DEBUG_SIZE (3 * sizeof(void *) + 2 * sizeof(struct track)) > + > +/* > * Set of flags that will prevent slab merging > */ > #define SLUB_NEVER_MERGE (SLAB_RED_ZONE | SLAB_POISON | SLAB_STORE_USER | \ > @@ -1561,6 +1566,21 @@ slab_out_of_memory(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int nid) > "default order: %d, min order: %d\n", s->name, s->objsize, > s->size, oo_order(s->oo), oo_order(s->min)); > > + if (s->flags & (SLAB_POISON | SLAB_RED_ZONE | SLAB_STORE_USER)) { > + int min_order; > + > + /* > + * Debugging is enabled, which may increase oo_order(s->min), so > + * warn the user that allocation failures may be avoided if > + * debugging is enabled for this cache. > + */ > + min_order = get_order(s->size - MAX_DEBUG_SIZE); > + if (min_order < oo_order(s->min)) > + printk(KERN_WARNING " %s debugging increased min order " > + "from %d to %d, use slab_debug=-,%s to disable.", > + s->name, min_order, oo_order(s->min), s->name); It may be easier to check the order of the initial size vs. the order of the size with all metadata if (get_order(s->size) > get_order(s->objsize) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html