linux/mm
Christoph Lameter 50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
fadvise.c
filemap.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
filemap.h
filemap_xip.c
fremap.c
highmem.c [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: add kmap_atomic_pte for mapping highpte pages 2007-05-02 19:27:15 +02:00
hugetlb.c
internal.h Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
Kconfig Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
madvise.c mm: madvise avoid exclusive mmap_sem 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
Makefile Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
memory.c Add unitialized_var() macro for suppressing gcc warnings 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c page migration: fix NR_FILE_PAGES accounting 2007-04-24 08:23:08 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mmap.c get_unmapped_area doesn't need hugetlbfs hacks anymore 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c [PATCH] nommu: fix bug ip_conntrack does not work on nommu 2007-04-12 15:31:42 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: fix constraint deadlock 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
page-writeback.c Use ZVC counters to establish exact size of dirtyable pages 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: optimize compound_head() by avoiding a shared page flag 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
page_io.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
readahead.c readahead: code cleanup 2007-05-07 12:12:52 -07:00
rmap.c slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
shmem.c slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
slab.c slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
slob.c slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN 2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
slub.c slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
sparse.c
swap.c Make page->private usable in compound pages 2007-05-07 12:12:53 -07:00
swap_state.c
swapfile.c mm: make read_cache_page synchronous 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c [PATCH] x86-64: Fix vmalloc_32 to really allocate <4GB on 64bit platforms 2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
vmscan.c
vmstat.c