Re: [PATCH V2] mm/slab: add a leak decoder callback

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:34:38PM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> On wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:03:13 +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> > This adds a leak decoder callback so that slab destruction
> > can use to generate debugging output for the allocated objects.
> > 
> > Callers like btrfs are using their own leak tracking which will
> > manage allocated objects in a list(or something else), this does
> > indeed the same thing as what slab does.  So adding a callback
> > for leak tracking can avoid this as well as runtime overhead.
> 
> If the slab is merged with the other one, this patch can work well?

Yes and no, so I'll disable merging slab in the next version :)

thanks,
liubo
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