mm, slub: allocate private object map for debugfs listings
Slub has a static spinlock protected bitmap for marking which objects are on freelist when it wants to list them, for situations where dynamically allocating such map can lead to recursion or locking issues, and on-stack bitmap would be too large. The handlers of debugfs files alloc_traces and free_traces also currently use this shared bitmap, but their syscall context makes it straightforward to allocate a private map before entering locked sections, so switch these processing paths to use a private bitmap. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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