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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst index 4eee598555c9..289d231cee97 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 @@ -83,17 +88,33 @@ switch off debugging for such caches by default, use:: slub_debug=O -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:: +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 + +The state of each debug option for a slab can be found in the respective files +under:: /sys/kernel/slab/<slab name>/ -Look at the writable files. Writing 1 to them will enable the -corresponding debug option. All options can be set on a slab that does -not contain objects. If the slab already contains objects then sanity checks -and tracing may only be enabled. The other options may cause the realignment -of objects. +If the file contains 1, the option is enabled, 0 means disabled. The debug +options from the ``slub_debug`` parameter translate to the following files:: + + F sanity_checks + Z red_zone + P poison + U store_user + T trace + A failslab Careful with tracing: It may spew out lots of information and never stop if used on the wrong slab. |