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Vlastimil Babka authored
Currently, enabling CONFIG_STACKDEPOT means its stack_table will be
allocated from memblock, even if stack depot ends up not actually used.
The default size of stack_table is 4MB on 32-bit, 8MB on 64-bit.

This is fine for use-cases such as KASAN which is also a config option
and has overhead on its own.  But it's an issue for functionality that
has to be actually enabled on boot (page_owner) or depends on hardware
(GPU drivers) and thus the memory might be wasted.  This was raised as
an issue [1] when attempting to add stackdepot support for SLUB's debug
object tracking functionality.  It's common to build kernels with
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and enable slub_debug on boot only when needed, or
create only specific kmem caches with debugging for testing purposes.

It would thus be more efficient if stackdepot's table was allocated only
when actually going to be used.  This patch thus makes the allocation
(and whole stack_depot_init() ca...
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