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Vlastimil Babka eb4940d4ad mm/slab: remove !CONFIG_TRACING variants of kmalloc_[node_]trace()
For !CONFIG_TRACING kernels, the kmalloc() implementation tries (in cases where
the allocation size is build-time constant) to save a function call, by
inlining kmalloc_trace() to a kmem_cache_alloc() call.

However since commit 6edf2576a6 ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of
kmalloc") this path now fails to pass the original request size to be
eventually recorded (for kmalloc caches with debugging enabled).

We could adjust the code to call __kmem_cache_alloc_node() as the
CONFIG_TRACING variant, but that would as a result inline a call with 5
parameters, bloating the kmalloc() call sites. The cost of extra function
call (to kmalloc_trace()) seems like a lesser evil.

It also appears that the !CONFIG_TRACING variant is incompatible with upcoming
hardening efforts [1] so it's easier if we just remove it now. Kernels with no
tracing are rare these days and the benefit is dubious anyway.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221101222520.never.109-kees@kernel.org/T/#m20ecf14390e406247bde0ea9cce368f469c539ed

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/097d8fba-bd10-a312-24a3-a4068c4f424c@suse.cz/
Suggested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2022-11-04 14:57:21 +01:00
arch RISC-V: 2022-10-23 15:00:43 -07:00
block block-6.1-2022-10-20 2022-10-21 15:14:14 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible 2022-10-11 17:42:58 -06:00
Documentation hwmon fixes for v6.1-rc2 2022-10-22 16:04:34 -07:00
drivers Revert "mfd: syscon: Remove repetition of the regmap_get_val_endian()" 2022-10-23 12:04:56 -07:00
fs First batch of EFI fixes for v6.1 2022-10-21 18:02:36 -07:00
include mm/slab: remove !CONFIG_TRACING variants of kmalloc_[node_]trace() 2022-11-04 14:57:21 +01:00
init init: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "satify" -> "satisfy" 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fail zc sendmsg when unsupported by socket 2022-10-22 08:43:03 -06:00
ipc - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization from Fabio Francesco 2022-10-12 11:00:22 -07:00
kernel kernel/utsname_sysctl.c: Fix hostname polling 2022-10-23 12:01:01 -07:00
lib Random number generator fixes for Linux 6.1-rc1. 2022-10-16 15:27:07 -07:00
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mm mm/slab: remove !CONFIG_TRACING variants of kmalloc_[node_]trace() 2022-11-04 14:57:21 +01:00
net io_uring-6.1-2022-10-22 2022-10-23 09:55:50 -07:00
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samples VFIO updates for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-12 14:46:48 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.1 2022-10-16 11:12:22 -07:00
security selinux: enable use of both GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC in convert_context() 2022-10-19 09:55:53 -04:00
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CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS pci-v6.1-fixes-2 2022-10-22 15:52:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.1-rc2 2022-10-23 15:27:33 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.