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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:08:20 -0800
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: SLOB wishlist
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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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