The patch titled
Subject: slub: extend slub debug to handle multiple slabs
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
slub-extend-slub-debug-to-handle-multiple-slabs.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/slub-extend-slub-debug-to-handle-multiple-slabs.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/slub-extend-slub-debug-to-handle-multiple-slabs.patch
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From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: slub: extend slub debug to handle multiple slabs
Extend the slub_debug syntax to "slub_debug=<flags>[,<slub>]*", where
<slub> may contain an asterisk at the end. For example, the following
would poison all kmalloc slabs:
slub_debug=P,kmalloc*
and the following would apply the default flags to all kmalloc and all
block IO slabs:
slub_debug=,bio*,kmalloc*
Please note that a similar patch was posted by Iliyan Malchev some time
ago but was never merged:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=131283905330474&w=2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180928111139.27962-1-atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Iliyan Malchev <malchev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/vm/slub.rst | 12 ++++++--
mm/slub.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst~slub-extend-slub-debug-to-handle-multiple-slabs
+++ a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ debugging is enabled. Format:
slub_debug=<Debug-Options>
Enable options for all slabs
-slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name>
- Enable options only for select slabs
+slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2>,...
+ Enable options only for select slabs (no spaces
+ after a comma)
Possible debug options are::
@@ -62,7 +63,12 @@ Trying to find an issue in the dentry ca
slub_debug=,dentry
-to only enable debugging on the dentry cache.
+to only enable debugging on the dentry cache. You may use an asterisk at the
+end of the slab name, in order to cover all slabs with the same prefix. For
+example, here's how you can poison the dentry cache as well as all kmalloc
+slabs:
+
+ slub_debug=P,kmalloc-*,dentry
Red zoning and tracking may realign the slab. We can just apply sanity checks
to the dentry cache with::
--- a/mm/slub.c~slub-extend-slub-debug-to-handle-multiple-slabs
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -1276,16 +1276,54 @@ out:
__setup("slub_debug", setup_slub_debug);
+/*
+ * kmem_cache_flags - apply debugging options to the cache
+ * @object_size: the size of an object without meta data
+ * @flags: flags to set
+ * @name: name of the cache
+ * @ctor: constructor function
+ *
+ * Debug option(s) are applied to @flags. In addition to the debug
+ * option(s), if a slab name (or multiple) is specified i.e.
+ * slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2> ...
+ * then only the select slabs will receive the debug option(s).
+ */
slab_flags_t kmem_cache_flags(unsigned int object_size,
slab_flags_t flags, const char *name,
void (*ctor)(void *))
{
- /*
- * Enable debugging if selected on the kernel commandline.
- */
- if (slub_debug && (!slub_debug_slabs || (name &&
- !strncmp(slub_debug_slabs, name, strlen(slub_debug_slabs)))))
- flags |= slub_debug;
+ char *iter;
+ size_t len;
+
+ /* If slub_debug = 0, it folds into the if conditional. */
+ if (!slub_debug_slabs)
+ return flags | slub_debug;
+
+ len = strlen(name);
+ iter = slub_debug_slabs;
+ while (*iter) {
+ char *end, *glob;
+ size_t cmplen;
+
+ end = strchr(iter, ',');
+ if (!end)
+ end = iter + strlen(iter);
+
+ glob = strnchr(iter, end - iter, '*');
+ if (glob)
+ cmplen = glob - iter;
+ else
+ cmplen = max_t(size_t, len, (end - iter));
+
+ if (!strncmp(name, iter, cmplen)) {
+ flags |= slub_debug;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (!*end)
+ break;
+ iter = end + 1;
+ }
return flags;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx are
slub-extend-slub-debug-to-handle-multiple-slabs.patch
