One advantage of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is that a generic distro kernel can be built with the option enabled, but it's inactive until simply enabled on boot, without rebuilding the kernel. With a static key, we can further eliminate the overhead of checking whether a cache has a particular debug flag enabled if we know that there are no such caches (slub_debug was not enabled during boot). We use the same mechanism also for e.g. page_owner, debug_pagealloc or kmemcg functionality.
This patch introduces the static key and makes the general check for per-cache debug flags kmem_cache_debug() use it. This benefits several call sites, including (slow path but still rather frequent) __slab_free(). The next patches will add more uses. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> --- mm/slub.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 8dd2925448ae..24d3e5f832aa 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -114,13 +114,21 @@ * the fast path and disables lockless freelists. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG +#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(slub_debug_enabled); +#else +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(slub_debug_enabled); +#endif +#endif + static inline int kmem_cache_debug(struct kmem_cache *s) { #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG - return unlikely(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS); -#else - return 0; + if (static_branch_unlikely(&slub_debug_enabled)) + return s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS; #endif + return 0; } void *fixup_red_left(struct kmem_cache *s, void *p) @@ -1389,6 +1397,8 @@ static int __init setup_slub_debug(char *str) slub_debug_string = saved_str; } out: + if (slub_debug != 0 || slub_debug_string) + static_branch_enable(&slub_debug_enabled); if ((static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_alloc) || static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_free)) && (slub_debug & SLAB_POISON)) -- 2.26.2