Re: [PATCH v3 00/35] Memory allocation profiling

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 07:24:31 EST


On Mon 12-02-24 13:38:46, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
[...]
> We're aiming to get this in the next merge window, for 6.9. The feedback
> we've gotten has been that even out of tree this patchset has already
> been useful, and there's a significant amount of other work gated on the
> code tagging functionality included in this patchset [2].

I suspect it will not come as a surprise that I really dislike the
implementation proposed here. I will not repeat my arguments, I have
done so on several occasions already.

Anyway, I didn't go as far as to nak it even though I _strongly_ believe
this debugging feature will add a maintenance overhead for a very long
time. I can live with all the downsides of the proposed implementation
_as long as_ there is a wider agreement from the MM community as this is
where the maintenance cost will be payed. So far I have not seen (m)any
acks by MM developers so aiming into the next merge window is more than
little rushed.

> 81 files changed, 2126 insertions(+), 695 deletions(-)
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs