Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Restructure kmem_cache_create() to move debugcache integrity checks into a new function

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Aug 15 2012 - 19:53:18 EST


On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:40:18 -0600
Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@xxxxxx> wrote:

> kmem_cache_create() does cache integrity checks when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> is defined. These checks interspersed with the regular code path has
> lead to compile time warnings when compiled without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> defined. Restructuring the code to move the integrity checks in to a new
> function would eliminate the current compile warning problem and also
> will allow for future changes to the debug only code to evolve without
> introducing new warnings in the regular path. This restructuring work
> is based on the discussion in the following thread:

Your patch appears to be against some ancient old kernel, such as 3.5.
I did this:

--- a/mm/slab_common.c~mm-slab_commonc-restructure-kmem_cache_create-to-move-debug-cache-integrity-checks-into-a-new-function-fix
+++ a/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -101,15 +101,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(con

get_online_cpus();
mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
-
- if (kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size))
- goto oops;
-
- s = __kmem_cache_create(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
-oops:
-#endif
+ if (kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size) == 0)
+ s = __kmem_cache_create(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
put_online_cpus();

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