[PATCH] kernel: provide better control & help for SLUB configuration

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 14:25:52 PST 2023


From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>

Allow selecting KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG and KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG_ON manually and
provide detailed help for both.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
---
 config/Config-kernel.in | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/Config-kernel.in b/config/Config-kernel.in
index a1209d82f3..4529c81fc7 100644
--- a/config/Config-kernel.in
+++ b/config/Config-kernel.in
@@ -682,10 +682,21 @@ config KERNEL_PRINTK_TIME
 	default y
 
 config KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG
-	bool
+	bool "Enable SLUB debugging support"
+	help
+	  This enables various debugging features:
+	    - Accepts "slub_debug" kernel parameter
+	    - Provides caches debugging options (e.g. tracing, validating)
+	    - Adds /sys/kernel/slab/ attrs for reading amounts of *objects*
+	    - Enables /proc/slabinfo support
+	    - Prints into when running out of memory
 
 config KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG_ON
-	bool
+	depends on KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG
+	bool "Boot kernel with basic caches debugging enabled"
+	help
+	  This enables by default sanity_checks, red_zone, poison and store_user
+	  debugging options for all caches.
 
 config KERNEL_SLABINFO
 	select KERNEL_SLUB_DEBUG
-- 
2.35.3




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