linux/arch
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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alpha get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on alpha 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
arm get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on arm 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
arm26 [PATCH] x86: deflate stack usage in lib/inflate.c 2007-05-02 19:27:15 +02:00
avr32 AVR32: Remove useless config option "GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK". 2007-04-27 13:45:26 +02:00
cris [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned 2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
frv get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on frv 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] Declare init_irq_proc before we use it. 2007-02-19 14:21:50 -08:00
i386 get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on i386 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
ia64 get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on ia64 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned 2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
m68k m68k: export csum_partial_copy_from_user 2007-05-04 17:59:08 -07:00
m68knommu PCI: Cleanup the includes of <linux/pci.h> 2007-05-02 19:02:35 -07:00
mips RM9000 serial driver 2007-05-07 12:12:50 -07:00
parisc get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on parisc 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
powerpc slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
ppc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -07:00
s390 Introduce CONFIG_HAS_DMA 2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
sh [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned 2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
sh64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -07:00
sparc [PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned 2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
sparc64 get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on sparc64 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
um [PATCH] i386: Add an option for the VIA C7 which sets appropriate L1 cache 2007-05-02 19:27:05 +02:00
v850 kbuild: Replace remaining "depends" with "depends on" 2007-02-17 19:05:24 +01:00
x86_64 get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on x86_64 2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
xtensa Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6 2007-05-05 14:55:20 -07:00