On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 07:52:02PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 07:48:59PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 07:43:10PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > list_del() does do poisoning - and list debugging is cheaper to enable > > > than full slab debugging. > > > > Ah, right, now we have DEBUG_LIST. Completely forgot about that. I > > don't think the cost difference matters that much as long as there are > > enough people running with slab debugging, but, yeah, with DEBUG_LIST, > > leaving list_del() alone would actually be better. I'll drop that > > part. > > I can't remember if it was Fedora or RH (or both?) but in one of those > they actually leave it enabled in their production kernels. Someone was > blogging about the bugs it found... And we poison regardless of DEBUG_LIST and looks like have been doing that forever. I have no idea why I was thinking list_del() didn't poison. Maybe it was something which got stuck in my brain from before the git history or I'm just hallucinating. Anyways, yeap, list_del() is better. Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
