From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Justin Schoeman <justin@expertron.co.za>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:56:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050303235633.694e87c6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422812D9.4090303@expertron.co.za>
Justin Schoeman <justin@expertron.co.za> wrote:
>
> Will the slab debugger make it into the kernel as a standard compile
> time option? It is a _really_ usefull tool to have around.
It has a slight downside: it unconditionally changes the type of
kmem_bufctl_t to unsigned long, which wastes two or four bytes per page of
slab.
I suppose we could fix that up with suitable use of CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-04 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 8:17 Justin Schoeman
2005-03-02 9:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-02 13:32 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2005-03-02 16:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-02 19:46 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-03-03 12:19 ` Justin Schoeman
2005-03-03 12:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-04 7:48 ` Justin Schoeman
2005-03-04 7:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-02 9:31 ` Alexander Nyberg
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