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Commit ae14c63a authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects"

This reverts commit 78869146

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It's not clear why, but it causes unexplained problems in entirely
unrelated xfs code.  The most likely explanation is some slab
corruption, possibly triggered due to CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON.  See [1].

It ends up having a few other problems too, like build errors on
arch/arc, and Geert reporting it using much more memory on m68k [3] (it
probably does so elsewhere too, but it is probably just more noticeable
on m68k).

The architecture issues (both build and memory use) are likely just
because this change effectively force-enabled STACKDEPOT (along with a
very bad default value for the stackdepot hash size).  But together with
the xfs issue, this all smells like "this commit was not ready" to me.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/YPE3l82acwgI2OiV@infradead.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202107150600.LkGNb4Vb-lkp@intel.com/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdW=eoVzM1Re5FVoEN87nKfiLmM2+Ah7eNu2KXEhCvbZyA@mail.gmail.com/ [3]
Reported-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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