Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am the one who has to maintain SLAB and SLUB it seems and I have been
> > dealing with the trio SLAB, SLOB and SLUB for awhile now. Its okay and it
> > will be much easier once the cleanups are in.
> 
> And then there's patches such as kmemleak which would need to target
> all three. Plus it doesn't really make sense for users to select
> between three competiting implementations. Please don't take away our
> high hopes of getting rid of mm/slab.c Christoph =)

SLUB supports kmemleak (actually its quite improved). Switch debugging on 
and try

cat /sys/slab/kmalloc-128/alloc_calls.

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