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Qian Cai 7878c231da slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 
It turned out that DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK is still broken even after recent
recue efforts that when there is a large number of objects like
kmemleak_object which is normal on a debug kernel,

  # grep kmemleak /proc/slabinfo
  kmemleak_object   2243606 3436210 ...

reading /proc/slab_allocators could easily loop forever while processing
the kmemleak_object cache and any additional freeing or allocating
objects will trigger a reprocessing. To make a situation worse,
soft-lockups could easily happen in this sitatuion which will call
printk() to allocate more kmemleak objects to guarantee an infinite
loop.

Also, since it seems no one had noticed when it was totally broken
more than 2-year ago - see the commit fcf88917dd ("slab: fix a crash
by reading /proc/slab_allocators"), probably nobody cares about it
anymore due to the decline of the SLAB. Just remove it entirely.

Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
arch asm-generic: kill <asm/segment.h> and improve nommu generic uaccess helpers 2019-05-16 11:26:37 -07:00
block for-5.2/block-20190507 2019-05-07 18:14:36 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2019-05-07 22:03:58 -07:00
Documentation media updates for v5.2-rc1 2019-05-16 11:57:16 -07:00
drivers media updates for v5.2-rc1 2019-05-16 11:57:16 -07:00
fs configs updates for Linux 5.2: 2019-05-16 11:46:58 -07:00
include slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
init mm: shuffle initial free memory to improve memory-side-cache utilization 2019-05-14 19:52:48 -07:00
ipc ipc: do cyclic id allocation for the ipc object. 2019-05-14 19:52:52 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-16 11:00:20 -07:00
lib slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm slab: remove /proc/slab_allocators 2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
net This pull consists mostly of nfsd container work: 2019-05-15 18:21:43 -07:00
samples Add gitignore file for samples/vfs/ generated files 2019-05-14 13:30:10 -07:00
scripts Kconfig updates for v5.2 2019-05-15 09:06:14 -07:00
security Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-05-13 15:15:00 -07:00
sound ARM: SoC platform updates 2019-05-16 08:31:32 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-16 10:29:00 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt mm/mmu_notifier: convert user range->blockable to helper function 2019-05-14 09:47:49 -07:00
.clang-format Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
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.mailmap A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC-related driver updates 2019-05-16 09:19:14 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.2 2019-05-08 12:25:12 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.