This is a preperatory patch for the debugobjects infrastructure. The
flag prevents debug_free checks on kmem_caches. This is necessary to
avoid resursive calls into a debug mechanism which uses a kmem_cache
itself.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 include/linux/slab.h |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slab.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@
 #define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD		0x00100000UL	/* Spread some memory over cpuset */
 #define SLAB_TRACE		0x00200000UL	/* Trace allocations and frees */
 
+/* Flag to prevent checks on free */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS
+# define SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS	0x00400000UL
+#else
+# define SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS	0x00000000UL
+#endif
+
 /* The following flags affect the page allocator grouping pages by mobility */
 #define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT	0x00020000UL		/* Objects are reclaimable */
 #define SLAB_TEMPORARY		SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT	/* Objects are short-lived */

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