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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-05-06 14:50:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-07 12:12:57 -0700
commit50953fe9e00ebbeffa032a565ab2f08312d51a87 (patch)
tree9f95f56f0b51600959a76cd88ce17f6e9c7a98a3 /include/linux
parent4b1d89290b62bb2db476c94c82cf7442aab440c8 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index e14b4c338b89..1ffe0a959cd4 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t __deprecated;
* The ones marked DEBUG are only valid if CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG is set.
*/
#define SLAB_DEBUG_FREE 0x00000100UL /* DEBUG: Perform (expensive) checks on free */
-#define SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL 0x00000200UL /* DEBUG: Call constructor (as verifier) */
#define SLAB_RED_ZONE 0x00000400UL /* DEBUG: Red zone objs in a cache */
#define SLAB_POISON 0x00000800UL /* DEBUG: Poison objects */
#define SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN 0x00002000UL /* Align objs on cache lines */
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t __deprecated;
/* Flags passed to a constructor functions */
#define SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 0x001UL /* If not set, then deconstructor */
#define SLAB_CTOR_ATOMIC 0x002UL /* Tell constructor it can't sleep */
-#define SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY 0x004UL /* Tell constructor it's a verify call */
/*
* struct kmem_cache related prototypes