Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 5 authors, 2012-05-24

Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2012-05-22 03:22:30
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index e901a36..cabd217 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2118,6 +2118,7 @@ static void __kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
 			kfree(l3);
 		}
 	}
+	kfree(cachep->name);
 	kmem_cache_free(&cache_cache, cachep);
 }
 
@@ -2526,9 +2527,14 @@ kmem_cache_create (const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
 		BUG_ON(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep->slabp_cache));
 	}
 	cachep->ctor = ctor;
-	cachep->name = name;
 
-	if (setup_cpu_cache(cachep, gfp)) {
+	/* Can't do strdup while kmalloc is not up */
+	if (g_cpucache_up > EARLY)
+		cachep->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	else
+		cachep->name = name;
+
+	if (!cachep->name || setup_cpu_cache(cachep, gfp)) {
 		__kmem_cache_destroy(cachep);
 		cachep = NULL;
 		goto oops;
This doesn't work if you kmem_cache_destroy() a cache that was created 
when g_cpucache_cpu <= EARLY, the kfree() will explode.  That never 
happens for any existing cache created in kmem_cache_init(), but this 
would introduce the first roadblock in doing so.  So you'll need some 
magic to determine whether the cache was allocated statically and suppress 
the kfree() in such a case.

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