On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, WANG Chao wrote: > What about failslab_store()? SLAB_FAILSLAB is also a nomerge flag. Subject: slub: Disable tracing and failslab for merged slabs Tracing of mergeable slabs as well as uses of failslab are confusing since the objects of multiple slab caches will be affected. Moreover this creates a situation where a mergeable slab will become unmergeable. If tracing or failslab testing is desired then it may be best to switch merging off for starters. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c 2014-08-08 11:52:30.039681592 -0500 +++ linux/mm/slub.c 2014-08-28 09:45:58.748840392 -0500 @@ -4604,6 +4604,14 @@ static ssize_t trace_show(struct kmem_ca static ssize_t trace_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf, size_t length) { + /* + * Tracing a merged cache is going to give confusing results + * as well as cause other issues like converting a mergeable + * cache into an umergeable one. + */ + if (s->refcount > 1) + return -EINVAL; + s->flags &= ~SLAB_TRACE; if (buf[0] == '1') { s->flags &= ~__CMPXCHG_DOUBLE; @@ -4721,6 +4729,9 @@ static ssize_t failslab_show(struct kmem static ssize_t failslab_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf, size_t length) { + if (s->refcount > 1) + return -EINVAL; + s->flags &= ~SLAB_FAILSLAB; if (buf[0] == '1') s->flags |= SLAB_FAILSLAB; -- 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>