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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 06/17] mm: slub: introduce metadata_access_enable()/metadata_access_disable()
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:05:13 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> wrote:

> >> --- a/mm/slub.c
> >> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> >> @@ -467,13 +467,23 @@ static int slub_debug;
> >> static char *slub_debug_slabs;
> >> static int disable_higher_order_debug;
> >>
> >> +static inline void metadata_access_enable(void)
> >> +{
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> +static inline void metadata_access_disable(void)
> >> +{
> >> +}
> >
> > Some code comments here would be useful. What they do, why they exist,
> > etc. The next patch fills them in with
> > kasan_disable_local/kasan_enable_local but that doesn't help the reader
> > to understand what's going on. The fact that
> > kasan_disable_local/kasan_enable_local are also undocumented doesn't
> > help.
> >
>
> Ok, How about this?
>
> /*
> * This hooks separate payload access from metadata access.
> * Useful for memory checkers that have to know when slub
> * accesses metadata.
> */

"These hooks".

I still don't understand :( Maybe I'm having a more-stupid-than-usual
day. How can a function "separate access"? What does this mean? More
details, please. I think I've only once seen a comment which had too
much info!




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