Re: [PATCH] slab: Clean up the code comment in slab kmem_cache struct

[Christopher Lameter]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Baoquan He wrote:

> I am back porting Thomas's sl[a|u]b freelist randomization feature to
> our distros, need go through slab code for better understanding. From
> git log history, they were 'obj_offset' and 'obj_size'. Later on
> 'obj_size' was renamed to 'object_size' in commit 3b0efdfa1e("mm, sl[aou]b:
> Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache") which is from your patch.
> With my understanding, I guess you changed that on purpose because
> object_size is size of each object, obj_offset is for the whole cache,
> representing the offset the real object starts to be stored. And putting
> them separately is for better desribing them in code comment and
> distinction, e.g 'object_size' is in "4) cache creation/removal",
> while 'obj_offset' is put alone to indicate it's for the whole.

obj_offset only applies when CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG is set. Ok so that screwy
name also indicates that something special goes on.