android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/arch/powerpc/platforms
Christoph Lameter 50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
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4xx [POWERPC] Re-organize Kconfig code for 4xx in arch/powerpc 2007-04-24 21:32:00 +10:00
8xx Merge branch 'kconfig' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into for-2.6.22 2007-04-24 08:42:11 +10:00
52xx [POWERPC] Avoid putting cpu node twice 2007-04-30 11:05:48 +10:00
82xx Merge branch 'kconfig' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into for-2.6.22 2007-04-24 08:42:11 +10:00
83xx Merge branch 'kconfig' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into for-2.6.22 2007-04-24 08:42:11 +10:00
85xx Merge branch 'kconfig' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into for-2.6.22 2007-04-24 08:42:11 +10:00
86xx Merge branch 'kconfig' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into for-2.6.22 2007-04-24 08:42:11 +10:00
apus
cell slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag 2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
celleb [POWERPC] Generic check_legacy_ioport 2007-04-27 21:14:30 +10:00
chrp [POWERPC] Remove old interface find_devices 2007-04-24 22:09:02 +10:00
embedded6xx [POWERPC] Rename get_property to of_get_property: arch/powerpc 2007-04-13 03:55:19 +10:00
iseries [POWERPC] Generic check_legacy_ioport 2007-04-27 21:14:30 +10:00
maple [POWERPC] Rename MPIC_BROKEN_U3 to MPIC_U3_HT_IRQS 2007-04-24 22:06:58 +10:00
pasemi [POWERPC] get_property cleanups 2007-04-30 11:02:05 +10:00
powermac i2c: Cleanup the includes of <linux/i2c.h> 2007-05-01 23:26:29 +02:00
prep [POWERPC] Split several platforms into their respective Kconfig file 2007-03-22 10:07:32 -05:00
ps3 [POWERPC] Spinlock initializer cleanup 2007-04-30 11:02:06 +10:00
pseries Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2007-05-04 18:04:48 -07:00
Kconfig [POWERPC] Clean up cpufreq Kconfig dependencies 2007-04-30 11:02:03 +10:00
Makefile [POWERPC] Restore 'proper' link order in platform 2007-02-13 15:35:53 +11:00