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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-09-23 23:08:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-09-23 23:08:43 +0200 |
| commit | d7a4b414eed51f1653bb05ebe84122bf9a7ae18b (patch) | |
| tree | bd6603a0c27de4c138a1767871897e9cd3e1a1d2 /Documentation/vm/slub.txt | |
| parent | 1f0ab40976460bc4673fa204ce917a725185d8f2 (diff) | |
| parent | a724eada8c2a7b62463b73ccf73fd0bb6e928aeb (diff) | |
Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobes
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h
kernel/trace/trace_export.c
Merge reason:
Sync with latest significant tracing core changes.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/slub.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/slub.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt index bb1f5c6e28b..510917ff59e 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Possible debug options are P Poisoning (object and padding) U User tracking (free and alloc) T Trace (please only use on single slabs) + O Switch debugging off for caches that would have + caused higher minimum slab orders - Switch all debugging off (useful if the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON) @@ -59,6 +61,14 @@ to the dentry cache with slub_debug=F,dentry +Debugging options may require the minimum possible slab order to increase as +a result of storing the metadata (for example, caches with PAGE_SIZE object +sizes). This has a higher liklihood of resulting in slab allocation errors +in low memory situations or if there's high fragmentation of memory. To +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: |