Hi Pekka, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is the second spin of my patchset to clean SLxB and improve kmem > trace events accuracy. > > For this v2, the most relevant stuff is: > > I've dropped two patches that were not very well received: > Namely this two are now gone: > mm, slob: Use only 'ret' variable for both slob object and returned pointer > mm, slob: Trace allocation failures consistently > I believe consistency is important but perhaps this is just me being paranoid. > > There's a lot of dumb movement and renaming. This might seem stupid > (and maybe it is) but it's necessary to create some common code between SLAB > and SLUB, and then factor it out. > > Also, there's a patch to add a new option to disable gcc auto-inlining. > I know we hate to add new options, but this is necessary to get > accurate call site > traces. Plus, the option is in "Kernel Hacking", so it's for kernel > developers only. > > This work is part of CELF Workgroup Project: > "Kernel_dynamic_memory_allocation_tracking_and_reduction" [1] > > Feedback, comments, suggestions are very welcome. > > Ezequiel Garcia (10): > mm: Factor SLAB and SLUB common code > mm, slub: Rename slab_alloc() -> slab_alloc_node() to match SLAB > mm, slab: Rename __cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc() > mm, slab: Match SLAB and SLUB kmem_cache_alloc_xxx_trace() prototype > mm, slab: Replace 'caller' type, void* -> unsigned long > mm, util: Use dup_user to duplicate user memory > mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller() > mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size() > mm, slob: Use NUMA_NO_NODE instead of -1 > Makefile: Add option CONFIG_DISABLE_GCC_AUTOMATIC_INLINING > Can you pick patches 2, 3, 4, and 5? Namely only those related to SLOB and to simple cleanups. I'll redo SLAB/SLUB commonization, as Christoph requested. Thanks, Ezequiel. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>