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Vlastimil Babka
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One advantage of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is that a generic distro kernel can be built with the option enabled, but it's inactive until simply enabled on boot, without rebuilding the kernel. With a static key, we can further eliminate the overhead of checking whether a cache has a particular debug flag enabled if we know that there are no such caches (slub_debug was not enabled during boot). We use the same mechanism also for e.g. page_owner, debug_pagealloc or kmemcg functionality. This patch introduces the static key and makes the general check for per-cache debug flags kmem_cache_debug() use it. This benefits several call sites, including (slow path but still rather frequent) __slab_free(). The next patches will add more uses. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-7-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.