From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net, willy@infradead.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ikomyagin@gmail.com,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:36:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180225083644.1707c8b0@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180224190454.23716-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:04:52 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> 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.
>
> The patches are against davem's linux-net tree and should also
> goto stable as well.
>
> Stephen Hemminger (2):
> slab: add flag to block merging of UAPI elements
> net: mark slab's used by ss as UAPI
>
> include/linux/slab.h | 6 ++++++
> mm/slab_common.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 ++-
> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +-
> net/socket.c | 6 +++---
> 6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
The kbuild reports need more root cause investigation before applying.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-25 16:36 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 ` [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-25 16:36 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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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