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By default kfence allocation can happen for any slab object, whose size is up to PAGE_SIZE, as long as that allocation is the first allocation after expiration of kfence sample interval. But in certain debugging scenarios we may be interested in debugging corruptions involving some specific slub objects like dentry or ext4_* etc. In such cases limiting kfence for allocations involving only specific slub objects will increase the probablity of catching the issue since kfence pool will not be consumed by other slab objects. This patch introduces a sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/slab/<name>/skip_kfence' to disable kfence for specific slabs. Having the interface work in this way does not impact current/default behavior of kfence and allows us to use kfence for specific slabs (when needed) as well. The decision to skip/use kfence is taken depending on whether kmem_cache.flags has (newly introduced) SLAB_SKIP_KFENCE flag set or not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220814195353.2540848-1-imran.f.khan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.