slab: add a flag to prevent debug_free checks on a kmem_cache
This is a preperatory patch for the debugobjects infrastructure. The flag
prevents debug_free checks on kmem_caches. This is necessary to avoid
resursive calls into a debug mechanism which uses a kmem_cache itself.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index f62caaa..6d03c95 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
#define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */
+/* Flag to prevent checks on free */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS
+# define SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS 0x00400000UL
+#else
+# define SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS 0x00000000UL
+#endif
+
/* The following flags affect the page allocator grouping pages by mobility */
#define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* Objects are reclaimable */
#define SLAB_TEMPORARY SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT /* Objects are short-lived */