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Content-Language: en-US To: Imran Khan , glider@google.com, elver@google.com, dvyukov@google.com, cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, 42.hyeyoo@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20220727234241.1423357-1-imran.f.khan@oracle.com> From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20220727234241.1423357-1-imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; imf09.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=infradead.org header.s=bombadil.20210309 header.b=rMmanMom; spf=none (imf09.hostedemail.com: domain of rdunlap@infradead.org has no SPF policy when checking 198.137.202.133) smtp.mailfrom=rdunlap@infradead.org; dmarc=none ARC-Seal: i=1; s=arc-20220608; d=hostedemail.com; t=1658966435; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=7dlFOSyWH3O1ZsXapDNDHLqkCVAWfyrnbmGyem3dHgFr7lQ3cGLHkFBRYBhocAUwZlS90o doDq1Jnh0UfqWJekdb9JCli6RWUf/AUWj9LCFOmjDx2bneCxODUtsCLzqJbXEM1uFHmJ2m i3ct4Q8pOvAGBUwfhc0QWua2iHCCAzI= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=hostedemail.com; s=arc-20220608; t=1658966435; h=from:from:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:dkim-signature; bh=WTkGwzy7iFB5CID6XuwVfQXOKDRWcxWpB3w1MB3wbdc=; b=ti6dG8OGB9vPsrpl6XUshkBlzR/hEZmYxfPmnhZ36ZFfxPkNL9FDwykCsXHJrSohvgk71R nlw1SbxtchkEDrHPtvThy8c5F+BCxuTg3tXPDs/dN8lnGB1E0GtLtZuE1bN7oXyhC4ntoP qGaBBBHm3MIDOnxPLh5rBF3Rp51ApRs= X-Stat-Signature: tshsfhj7yb3mfm36osifrptmjmxkf7x7 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 732E11400C1 X-Rspam-User: Authentication-Results: imf09.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=infradead.org header.s=bombadil.20210309 header.b=rMmanMom; spf=none (imf09.hostedemail.com: domain of rdunlap@infradead.org has no SPF policy when checking 198.137.202.133) smtp.mailfrom=rdunlap@infradead.org; dmarc=none X-Rspamd-Server: rspam02 X-HE-Tag: 1658966432-734642 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Hi-- On 7/27/22 16:42, Imran Khan wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > index 98e5cb91faab..d66f555df7ba 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -5553,6 +5553,11 @@ > last alloc / free. For more information see > Documentation/mm/slub.rst. > > + slub_kfence[=slabs][,slabs]]...] [MM, SLUB] I suppose that 'slabs' are by name? How can the names be found? via 'slabinfo -l' or 'ls /sys/kernel/slab/' ? It seems to me that the boot option should be listed as s/slabs/slab/. I.e., one uses 'comma' to list multiple slabs. Or is there a way for multiple slabs to be entered without commas? > + Specifies the slabs for which kfence debug mechanism > + can be used. For more information about kfence see > + Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst. > + thanks. -- ~Randy