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Commit ca0cab65 authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, slub: introduce static key for slub_debug()



One advantage of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is that a generic distro kernel can be
built with the option enabled, but it's inactive until simply enabled on
boot, without rebuilding the kernel.  With a static key, we can further
eliminate the overhead of checking whether a cache has a particular debug
flag enabled if we know that there are no such caches (slub_debug was not
enabled during boot).  We use the same mechanism also for e.g.
page_owner, debug_pagealloc or kmemcg functionality.

This patch introduces the static key and makes the general check for
per-cache debug flags kmem_cache_debug() use it.  This benefits several
call sites, including (slow path but still rather frequent) __slab_free().
The next patches will add more uses.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-7-vbabka@suse.cz


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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