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

[Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/22/2012 05:56 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Nope. Only slab management caches will be created that early. The patch is
> fine as is.

I think that's precisely David's point: that we might want to destroy 
them eventually.

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