mm, slub: extend slub_debug syntax for multiple blocks

Patch series "slub_debug fixes and improvements".

The slub_debug kernel boot parameter can either apply a single set of
options to all caches or a list of caches.  There is a use case where
debugging is applied for all caches and then disabled at runtime for
specific caches, for performance and memory consumption reasons [1].  As
runtime changes are dangerous, extend the boot parameter syntax so that
multiple blocks of either global or slab-specific options can be
specified, with blocks delimited by ';'.  This will also support the use
case of [1] without runtime changes.

For details see the updated Documentation/vm/slub.rst

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1383cd32-1ddc-4dac-b5f8-9c42282fa81c@codeaurora.org

[weiyongjun1@huawei.com: make parse_slub_debug_flags() static]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702150522.4940-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
index 4eee598555c9..cfccb258cf42 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2>,...
 	Enable options only for select slabs (no spaces
 	after a comma)
 
+Multiple blocks of options for all slabs or selected slabs can be given, with
+blocks of options delimited by ';'. The last of "all slabs" blocks is applied
+to all slabs except those that match one of the "select slabs" block. Options
+of the first "select slabs" blocks that matches the slab's name are applied.
+
 Possible debug options are::
 
 	F		Sanity checks on (enables SLAB_DEBUG_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS
@@ -83,6 +88,19 @@ switch off debugging for such caches by default, use::
 
 	slub_debug=O
 
+You can apply different options to different list of slab names, using blocks
+of options. This will enable red zoning for dentry and user tracking for
+kmalloc. All other slabs will not get any debugging enabled::
+
+	slub_debug=Z,dentry;U,kmalloc-*
+
+You can also enable options (e.g. sanity checks and poisoning) for all caches
+except some that are deemed too performance critical and don't need to be
+debugged by specifying global debug options followed by a list of slab names
+with "-" as options::
+
+	slub_debug=FZ;-,zs_handle,zspage
+
 In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line: It is
 possible to enable debugging manually when the kernel is up. Look at the
 contents of::