From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx101.postini.com [74.125.245.101]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D7DF6B0078 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:50:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by iec9 with SMTP id 9so2458550iec.14 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:50:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 19:50:47 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 0/5] mm, slob: Tracing accuracy improvement From: Ezequiel Garcia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Pekka Enberg , Christoph Lameter , Glauber Costa , Tim Bird , Steven Rostedt Hi everyone, This small patchset improves mm tracing accuracy, particularly on the slob allocator. Feedback, comments, suggestions are very welcome. This work is part of CELF Workgroup Project: "Kernel_dynamic_memory_allocation_tracking_and_reduction" [1] Ezequiel Garcia (5): mm, slob: Trace allocation failures consistently mm, slob: Use only 'ret' variable for both slob object and returned pointer mm, util: Do strndup_user allocation directly, instead of through memdup_user mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller() mm, slab: Remove silly function slab_buffer_size() include/linux/slab.h | 6 +++- mm/slab.c | 12 +-------- mm/slob.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- mm/util.c | 15 +++++++++-- 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) Thanks! Ezequiel. [1] http://elinux.org/Kernel_dynamic_memory_allocation_tracking_and_reduction -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org