Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 4 authors, 2018-07-31

Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm, slab: shorten kmalloc cache names for large sizes

From: Christopher Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-30 15:49:00
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
+static const char *
+kmalloc_cache_name(const char *prefix, unsigned int size)
+{
+
+	static const char units[3] = "\0kM";
+	int idx = 0;
+
+	while (size >= 1024 && (size % 1024 == 0)) {
+		size /= 1024;
+		idx++;
+	}
+
+	return kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "%s-%u%c", prefix, size, units[idx]);
+}
This is likely to occur elsewhere in the kernel. Maybe generalize it a
bit?

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
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