On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 08:58 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Currently we only annotate the kmalloc caches, annotate all of them. > > What is the benefit? Extra paranoia I guess.. I was fairly sure it was pointless, but I send it anyway. > The metadata for off slab caches uses the > kmalloc array. Should the annotation for the kmalloc cache not be > sufficient by putting that into a different lock category? Non-kmalloc > caches already have a different lock category before this patch right? Yeah, we annotate all kmalloc caches that have l3 and aren't OFF_SLAB(). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href