From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:36:44 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: davem@davemloft.net, willy@infradead.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ikomyagin@gmail.com, Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mark some slabs as visible not mergeable Message-ID: <20180225083644.1707c8b0@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: <20180224190454.23716-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> References: <20180224190454.23716-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:04:52 -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. > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org