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
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linux-mm, lkml
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+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>