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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt index 07375e73981..b0c6d1bbb43 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ data and perform operation on the slabs. By default slabinfo only lists slabs that have data in them. See "slabinfo -h" for more options when running the command. slabinfo can be compiled with -gcc -o slabinfo Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c +gcc -o slabinfo tools/vm/slabinfo.c Some of the modes of operation of slabinfo require that slub debugging be enabled on the command line. F.e. no tracking information will be @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ can be influenced by kernel parameters: slub_min_objects=x (default 4) slub_min_order=x (default 0) -slub_max_order=x (default 1) +slub_max_order=x (default 3 (PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) slub_min_objects allows to specify how many objects must at least fit into one slab in order for the allocation order to be acceptable. @@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ slub_min_objects. slub_max_order specified the order at which slub_min_objects should no longer be checked. This is useful to avoid SLUB trying to generate super large order pages to fit slub_min_objects of a slab cache with -large object sizes into one high order page. +large object sizes into one high order page. Setting command line +parameter debug_guardpage_minorder=N (N > 0), forces setting +slub_max_order to 0, what cause minimum possible order of slabs +allocation. SLUB Debug output ----------------- |