Re: Patch for slab leak debugging

[Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>]

> >Yeah I knew there was one, but I thought that was a standalone patch
> >(the one turning all bufctl to unsigned long, turning off irqs and
> >printing all slabs_full to console), my intention with this was a
> >proper /proc entry, something that could be a simple config option.
> >
> >  
> >
> No, I never wrote a proper /proc interface. But I think the bufctl 
> approach is the better solution than storing the first 5 entries in the 
> slab structure:
> What if there is a leak on a cache with more than 5 entries per slab?

As slab leaks usually go out of control I think it will be enough to
show what is leaking anyway, but you're right on the bufctl approach I
think. I may have misundersood the bufctl thing a bit before doing this.

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