Re: SLOB wishlist

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Sun Dec 11 2005 - 13:13:21 EST


On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:23:53PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> btw., here's my SLOB wishlist:
>
> - would be nice to have DEBUG_SLOB - people want to debug their memory
> allocations, no matter which allocator they use.

I have a patch somewhere for that.

> - would be nice to have CONFIG_SLOB_INFO, to have /proc/slabinfo for
> those who are ready to pay the .text price for it - this is nice for
> memory leak debugging, etc. [should be /proc/slabinfo, not
> /proc/slobinfo - to stay compatible with things like slabtop]

Might make more sense to use my /proc/kmalloc patch for this.

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