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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	ikomyagin@gmail.com, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:05:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180224210507.GA28183@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180224190454.23716-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com>

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This fixes an old bug in iproute2's ss command because it was
> reading slabinfo to get statistics. There isn't a better API
> to do this, and one can argue that /proc is a UAPI that must
> not change.
> 
> Therefore this patch set adds a flag to slab to give another
> reason to prevent merging, and then uses it in network code.

This is exactly the solution I would have suggested.  Note that SLUB
has always had slab merging, so this tool has been broken since 2.6.22
on any kernel with CONFIG_SLUB.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-24 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-24 19:04 [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-24 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] slab: add flag to block merging of UAPI elements Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-24 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: mark slab's used by ss as UAPI Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-25  3:34   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-25  6:05   ` [net] ba4f5b62a2: kernel_BUG_at_net/socket.c kernel test robot
2018-02-24 21:05 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-02-25 16:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-26 20:15 ` David Miller
2018-02-26 21:46   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27  1:13     ` David Miller

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