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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/mm/slab.c, branch linux-3.16.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2017-10-12T14:28:22+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags</title>
<updated>2017-10-12T14:28:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zefan Li</name>
<email>lizefan@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T01:41:02+00:00</published>
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commit 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 upstream.

When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk-&gt;flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.

Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.

Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230

To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.

v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: slab: only move management objects off-slab for sizes larger than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE</title>
<updated>2015-12-13T17:49:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:45:54+00:00</published>
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commit d4322d88f5fdf92729dd40f923013414fbb2184d upstream.

On systems with a KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE of 128 (arm64, some mips and powerpc
configurations defining ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128), the first
kmalloc_caches[] entry to be initialised after slab_early_init = 0 is
"kmalloc-128" with index 7.  Depending on the debug kernel configuration,
sizeof(struct kmem_cache) can be larger than 128 resulting in an
INDEX_NODE of 8.

Commit 8fc9cf420b36 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the
slab") enables off-slab management objects for sizes starting with
PAGE_SIZE &gt;&gt; 5 (128 bytes for a 4KB page configuration) and the creation
of the "kmalloc-128" cache would try to place the management objects
off-slab.  However, since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is already 128 and
freelist_size == 32 in __kmem_cache_create(), kmalloc_slab(freelist_size)
returns NULL (kmalloc_caches[7] not populated yet).  This triggers the
following bug on arm64:

  kernel BUG at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/mm/slab.c:2283!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.3.0-rc4+ #540
  Hardware name: Juno (DT)
  PC is at __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
  LR is at __kmem_cache_create+0x210/0x280
  [...]
  Call trace:
    __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
    create_boot_cache+0x48/0x80
    create_kmalloc_cache+0x50/0x88
    create_kmalloc_caches+0x4c/0xf4
    kmem_cache_init+0x100/0x118
    start_kernel+0x214/0x33c

This patch introduces an OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE definition to avoid off-slab
management objects for sizes equal to or smaller than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE.

Fixes: 8fc9cf420b36 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the slab")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slab: fix unexpected index mapping result of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE+1)</title>
<updated>2015-10-28T10:33:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>js1304@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-01T22:36:54+00:00</published>
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commit 03a2d2a3eafe4015412cf4e9675ca0e2d9204074 upstream.

Commit description is copied from the original post of this bug:

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/135349

Kernels after v3.9 use kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1) to get the next
larger cache size than the size index INDEX_NODE mapping.  In kernels
3.9 and earlier we used malloc_sizes[INDEX_L3 + 1].cs_size.

However, sometimes we can't get the right output we expected via
kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1), causing a BUG().

The mapping table in the latest kernel is like:
    index = {0,   1,  2 ,  3,  4,   5,   6,   n}
     size = {0,   96, 192, 8, 16,  32,  64,   2^n}
The mapping table before 3.10 is like this:
    index = {0 , 1 , 2,   3,  4 ,  5 ,  6,   n}
    size  = {32, 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 512, 2^(n+3)}

The problem on my mips64 machine is as follows:

(1) When configured DEBUG_SLAB &amp;&amp; DEBUG_PAGEALLOC &amp;&amp; DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    &amp;&amp; DEBUG_SPINLOCK, the sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node) will be "150",
    and the macro INDEX_NODE turns out to be "2": #define INDEX_NODE
    kmalloc_index(sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node))

(2) Then the result of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1) is 8.

(3) Then "if(size &gt;= kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1)" will lead to "size
    = PAGE_SIZE".

(4) Then "if ((size &gt;= (PAGE_SIZE &gt;&gt; 3))" test will be satisfied and
    "flags |= CFLGS_OFF_SLAB" will be covered.

(5) if (flags &amp; CFLGS_OFF_SLAB)" test will be satisfied and will go to
    "cachep-&gt;slabp_cache = kmalloc_slab(slab_size, 0u)", and the result
    here may be NULL while kernel bootup.

(6) Finally,"BUG_ON(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep-&gt;slabp_cache));" causes the
    BUG info as the following shows (may be only mips64 has this problem):

This patch fixes the problem of kmalloc_size(INDEX_NODE + 1) and removes
the BUG by adding 'size &gt;= 256' check to guarantee that all necessary
small sized slabs are initialized regardless sequence of slab size in
mapping table.

Fixes: e33660165c90 ("slab: Use common kmalloc_index/kmalloc_size...")
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Reported-by: Liuhailong &lt;liu.hailong6@zte.com.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>slab: fix nodeid bounds check for non-contiguous node IDs</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T17:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T23:59:48+00:00</published>
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commit 7c3fbbdd04a681a1992ad6a3d7a36a63ff668753 upstream.

The bounds check for nodeid in ____cache_alloc_node gives false
positives on machines where the node IDs are not contiguous, leading to
a panic at boot time.  For example, on a POWER8 machine the node IDs are
typically 0, 1, 16 and 17.  This means that num_online_nodes() returns
4, so when ____cache_alloc_node is called with nodeid = 16 the VM_BUG_ON
triggers, like this:

  kernel BUG at /home/paulus/kernel/kvm/mm/slab.c:3079!
  Call Trace:
    .____cache_alloc_node+0x5c/0x270 (unreliable)
    .kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x360
    .init_list+0x3c/0x128
    .kmem_cache_init+0x1dc/0x258
    .start_kernel+0x2a0/0x568
    start_here_common+0x20/0xa8

To fix this, we instead compare the nodeid with MAX_NUMNODES, and
additionally make sure it isn't negative (since nodeid is an int).  The
check is there mainly to protect the array dereference in the get_node()
call in the next line, and the array being dereferenced is of size
MAX_NUMNODES.  If the nodeid is in range but invalid (for example if the
node is off-line), the BUG_ON in the next line will catch that.

Fixes: 14e50c6a9bc2 ("mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node")
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, slab: initialize object alignment on cache creation</title>
<updated>2014-10-05T20:41:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-25T23:05:20+00:00</published>
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commit d4a5fca592b9ab52b90bb261a90af3c8f53be011 upstream.

Since commit 4590685546a3 ("mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code"), the
"ralign" automatic variable in __kmem_cache_create() may be used as
uninitialized.

The proper alignment defaults to BYTES_PER_WORD and can be overridden by
SLAB_RED_ZONE or the alignment specified by the caller.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85031

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andrei Elovikov &lt;a.elovikov@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>slab: fix oops when reading /proc/slab_allocators</title>
<updated>2014-06-23T23:47:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-23T20:22:06+00:00</published>
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Commit b1cb0982bdd6 ("change the management method of free objects of
the slab") introduced a bug on slab leak detector
('/proc/slab_allocators').  This detector works like as following
decription.

 1. traverse all objects on all the slabs.
 2. determine whether it is active or not.
 3. if active, print who allocate this object.

but that commit changed the way how to manage free objects, so the logic
determining whether it is active or not is also changed.  In before, we
regard object in cpu caches as inactive one, but, with this commit, we
mistakenly regard object in cpu caches as active one.

This intoduces kernel oops if DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled.  If
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled, kernel_map_pages() is used to detect who
corrupt free memory in the slab.  It unmaps page table mapping if object
is free and map it if object is active.  When slab leak detector check
object in cpu caches, it mistakenly think this object active so try to
access object memory to retrieve caller of allocation.  At this point,
page table mapping to this object doesn't exist, so oops occurs.

Following is oops message reported from Dave.

It blew up when something tried to read /proc/slab_allocators
(Just cat it, and you should see the oops below)

  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in:
  [snip...]
  CPU: 1 PID: 9386 Comm: trinity-c33 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc5+ #131
  task: ffff8801aa46e890 ti: ffff880076924000 task.ti: ffff880076924000
  RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffaa1a8f4a&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffaa1a8f4a&gt;] handle_slab+0x8a/0x180
  RSP: 0018:ffff880076925de0  EFLAGS: 00010002
  RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000005ce85ce7
  RDX: ffffea00079be100 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffff880107458000
  RBP: ffff880076925e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff8801e6f84000
  R13: ffffea00079be100 R14: ffff880107458000 R15: ffff88022bb8d2c0
  FS:  00007fb769e45740(0000) GS:ffff88024d040000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: ffff8801e6f84ff8 CR3: 00000000a22db000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
  DR0: 0000000002695000 DR1: 0000000002695000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000070602
  Call Trace:
    leaks_show+0xce/0x240
    seq_read+0x28e/0x490
    proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
    vfs_read+0x9b/0x160
    SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
    tracesys+0xd4/0xd9
  Code: f5 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 63 c8 44 3b 0c 8a 0f 84 e3 00 00 00 83 c0 01 44 39 c0 72 eb 41 f6 47 1a 01 0f 84 e9 00 00 00 89 f0 &lt;4d&gt; 8b 4c 04 f8 4d 85 c9 0f 84 88 00 00 00 49 8b 7e 08 4d 8d 46
  RIP   handle_slab+0x8a/0x180

To fix the problem, I introduce an object status buffer on each slab.
With this, we can track object status precisely, so slab leak detector
would not access active object and no kernel oops would occur.  Memory
overhead caused by this fix is only imposed to CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK
which is mainly used for debugging, so memory overhead isn't big
problem.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memcg, slab: merge memcg_{bind,release}_pages to memcg_{un}charge_slab</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:07:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Currently we have two pairs of kmemcg-related functions that are called on
slab alloc/free.  The first is memcg_{bind,release}_pages that count the
total number of pages allocated on a kmem cache.  The second is
memcg_{un}charge_slab that {un}charge slab pages to kmemcg resource
counter.  Let's just merge them to keep the code clean.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>slab: get_online_mems for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink}</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:07:20+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
When we create a sl[au]b cache, we allocate kmem_cache_node structures
for each online NUMA node.  To handle nodes taken online/offline, we
register memory hotplug notifier and allocate/free kmem_cache_node
corresponding to the node that changes its state for each kmem cache.

To synchronize between the two paths we hold the slab_mutex during both
the cache creationg/destruction path and while tuning per-node parts of
kmem caches in memory hotplug handler, but that's not quite right,
because it does not guarantee that a newly created cache will have all
kmem_cache_nodes initialized in case it races with memory hotplug.  For
instance, in case of slub:

    CPU0                            CPU1
    ----                            ----
    kmem_cache_create:              online_pages:
     __kmem_cache_create:            slab_memory_callback:
                                      slab_mem_going_online_callback:
                                       lock slab_mutex
                                       for each slab_caches list entry
                                           allocate kmem_cache node
                                       unlock slab_mutex
      lock slab_mutex
      init_kmem_cache_nodes:
       for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)
           allocate kmem_cache node
      add kmem_cache to slab_caches list
      unlock slab_mutex
                                    online_pages (continued):
                                     node_states_set_node

As a result we'll get a kmem cache with not all kmem_cache_nodes
allocated.

To avoid issues like that we should hold get/put_online_mems() during
the whole kmem cache creation/destruction/shrink paths, just like we
deal with cpu hotplug.  This patch does the trick.

Note, that after it's applied, there is no need in taking the slab_mutex
for kmem_cache_shrink any more, so it is removed from there.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;liuj97@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:06:38+00:00</published>
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We have only a few places where we actually want to charge kmem so
instead of intruding into the general page allocation path with
__GFP_KMEMCG it's better to explictly charge kmem there.  All kmem
charges will be easier to follow that way.

This is a step towards removing __GFP_KMEMCG.  It removes __GFP_KMEMCG
from memcg caches' allocflags.  Instead it makes slab allocation path
call memcg_charge_kmem directly getting memcg to charge from the cache's
memcg params.

This also eliminates any possibility of misaccounting an allocation
going from one memcg's cache to another memcg, because now we always
charge slabs against the memcg the cache belongs to.  That's why this
patch removes the big comment to memcg_kmem_get_cache.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm, slab: suppress out of memory warning unless debug is enabled</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:06:36+00:00</published>
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When the slab or slub allocators cannot allocate additional slab pages,
they emit diagnostic information to the kernel log such as current
number of slabs, number of objects, active objects, etc.  This is always
coupled with a page allocation failure warning since it is controlled by
!__GFP_NOWARN.

Suppress this out of memory warning if the allocator is configured
without debug supported.  The page allocation failure warning will
indicate it is a failed slab allocation, the order, and the gfp mask, so
this is only useful to diagnose allocator issues.

Since CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is already enabled by default for the slub
allocator, there is no functional change with this patch.  If debug is
disabled, however, the warnings are now suppressed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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