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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 21:39:33 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 21:39:33 +0300 |
commit | 81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4 (patch) | |
tree | 44e069e0bb26068137a1bda7ca5125c5b068b4ab /Documentation/vm/slub.rst | |
parent | 5631c5e0eb9035d92ceb20fcd9cdb7779a3f5cc7 (diff) | |
parent | 912c05720f00d039103d356a59c37dc7c3995e01 (diff) | |
download | linux-81e11336d97e7a4c25a65c302ef2bf9cd9808ed4.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few MM hotfixes
- kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2
- some of MM
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan,
debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore,
sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits)
mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill
mm/vmscan.c: fix typo
khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range
mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt
mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements
mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive
mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask()
mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access
mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx()
mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits
mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration
mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages()
mm: remove vm_total_pages
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/slub.rst')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst index 4eee598555c9..289d231cee97 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2>,... Enable options only for select slabs (no spaces after a comma) +Multiple blocks of options for all slabs or selected slabs can be given, with +blocks of options delimited by ';'. The last of "all slabs" blocks is applied +to all slabs except those that match one of the "select slabs" block. Options +of the first "select slabs" blocks that matches the slab's name are applied. + Possible debug options are:: F Sanity checks on (enables SLAB_DEBUG_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS @@ -83,17 +88,33 @@ switch off debugging for such caches by default, use:: slub_debug=O -In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line: It is -possible to enable debugging manually when the kernel is up. Look at the -contents of:: +You can apply different options to different list of slab names, using blocks +of options. This will enable red zoning for dentry and user tracking for +kmalloc. All other slabs will not get any debugging enabled:: + + slub_debug=Z,dentry;U,kmalloc-* + +You can also enable options (e.g. sanity checks and poisoning) for all caches +except some that are deemed too performance critical and don't need to be +debugged by specifying global debug options followed by a list of slab names +with "-" as options:: + + slub_debug=FZ;-,zs_handle,zspage + +The state of each debug option for a slab can be found in the respective files +under:: /sys/kernel/slab/<slab name>/ -Look at the writable files. Writing 1 to them will enable the -corresponding debug option. All options can be set on a slab that does -not contain objects. If the slab already contains objects then sanity checks -and tracing may only be enabled. The other options may cause the realignment -of objects. +If the file contains 1, the option is enabled, 0 means disabled. The debug +options from the ``slub_debug`` parameter translate to the following files:: + + F sanity_checks + Z red_zone + P poison + U store_user + T trace + A failslab Careful with tracing: It may spew out lots of information and never stop if used on the wrong slab. |