From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx159.postini.com [74.125.245.159]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D96F56B009B for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:42:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:42:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: Common [01/19] slub: Add debugging to verify correct cache use on kmem_cache_free() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20120802201506.266817615@linux.com> <20120802201530.921218259@linux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Glauber Costa , Pekka Enberg , linux-mm@kvack.org, Joonsoo Kim On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > This could quickly spam the kernel log depending on how frequently objects > are being freed from the buggy callsite, should we disable further > debugging for the cache in situations like this? This condition is pretty serious. The free action will be skipped and we will be continually leaking memory. I think its best to keep on logging this until someohne does something about the problem. -- 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