From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/slab.h |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN include/linux/slab.h~slab-add-a-flag-to-prevent-debug_free-checks-on-a-kmem_cache include/linux/slab.h
--- a/include/linux/slab.h~slab-add-a-flag-to-prevent-debug_free-checks-on-a-kmem_cache
+++ a/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 */
_