On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Laura Abbott wrote: > SLUB debugging by default does checks to ensure consistency. > These checks, while useful, are expensive for allocation speed. > Features such as poisoning and tracing can stand alone without > any checks. Add a slab flag to skip these checks.
I would suggest to rename the SLAB_DEBUG_FREE to SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS instead. I think the flag is already used that way in a couple of places. Flags generally enable stuff. Disabling what is enabled by others is something that we want to avoid for simplicities sake.
