On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h > index 3cd4677953c6..896818c7b30a 100644 > --- a/mm/slab.h > +++ b/mm/slab.h > @@ -515,6 +515,13 @@ static inline void dump_unreclaimable_slab(void) > > void ___cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *x, unsigned long addr); > > +static inline bool slab_no_ctor(struct kmem_cache *s) > +{ > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)) > + return !WARN_ON_ONCE(s->ctor); > + return true; > +} > + > #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM > int cache_random_seq_create(struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned int count, > gfp_t gfp); Move that to mm/slab.c? Debugging is runtime enabled with SLUB not compile time as with SLAB. > +++ b/mm/slub.c > @@ -2725,7 +2726,7 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, > stat(s, ALLOC_FASTPATH); > } > > - if (unlikely(gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO) && object) > + if (unlikely(gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO) && object && slab_no_ctor(s)) > memset(object, 0, s->object_size); > > slab_post_alloc_hook(s, gfpflags, 1, &object); Please put this in a code path that is enabled by specifying slub_debug on the kernel command line.