From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
PowerPC email list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH powerpc 2/2] kfree the cache name of pgtable cache if SLUB is used
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:40:48 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF439D0.1000603@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341392420.18505.41.camel@ThinkPad-T420>
On 07/04/2012 01:00 PM, Li Zhong wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:36 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> > Looking through the emails it seems that there is an issue with alias
>> > strings.
> To be more precise, there seems no big issue currently. I just wanted to
> make following usage of kmem_cache_create (SLUB) possible:
>
> name = some string kmalloced
> kmem_cache_create(name, ...)
> kfree(name);
Out of curiosity: Why?
This is not (currently) possible with the other allocators (may change
with christoph's unification patches), so you would be making your code
slub-dependent.
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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
PowerPC email list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH powerpc 2/2] kfree the cache name of pgtable cache if SLUB is used
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:40:48 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF439D0.1000603@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341392420.18505.41.camel@ThinkPad-T420>
On 07/04/2012 01:00 PM, Li Zhong wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:36 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> > Looking through the emails it seems that there is an issue with alias
>> > strings.
> To be more precise, there seems no big issue currently. I just wanted to
> make following usage of kmem_cache_create (SLUB) possible:
>
> name = some string kmalloced
> kmem_cache_create(name, ...)
> kfree(name);
Out of curiosity: Why?
This is not (currently) possible with the other allocators (may change
with christoph's unification patches), so you would be making your code
slub-dependent.
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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
PowerPC email list <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH powerpc 2/2] kfree the cache name of pgtable cache if SLUB is used
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:40:48 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF439D0.1000603@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341392420.18505.41.camel@ThinkPad-T420>
On 07/04/2012 01:00 PM, Li Zhong wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:36 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> > Looking through the emails it seems that there is an issue with alias
>> > strings.
> To be more precise, there seems no big issue currently. I just wanted to
> make following usage of kmem_cache_create (SLUB) possible:
>
> name = some string kmalloced
> kmem_cache_create(name, ...)
> kfree(name);
Out of curiosity: Why?
This is not (currently) possible with the other allocators (may change
with christoph's unification patches), so you would be making your code
slub-dependent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-04 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-25 9:53 [PATCH SLUB 1/2] duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list Li Zhong
2012-06-25 9:53 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-25 9:53 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-25 9:54 ` [PATCH powerpc 2/2] kfree the cache name of pgtable cache if SLUB is used Li Zhong
2012-06-25 9:54 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-25 9:54 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-29 0:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-29 0:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-29 0:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-29 1:41 ` Zhong Li
2012-06-29 1:41 ` Zhong Li
2012-06-29 1:41 ` Zhong Li
2012-07-03 18:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-03 18:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-03 18:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-03 20:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-03 20:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-03 20:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-04 9:00 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-04 9:00 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-04 9:00 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-04 12:40 ` Glauber Costa [this message]
2012-07-04 12:40 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-04 12:40 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-05 1:41 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-05 1:41 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-05 1:41 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-05 8:23 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-05 8:23 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-05 8:23 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-05 9:29 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-05 9:29 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-05 9:29 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-06 10:13 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-06 10:13 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-06 10:13 ` Glauber Costa
2012-07-09 1:48 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-09 1:48 ` Li Zhong
2012-07-09 1:48 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-25 10:54 ` [PATCH SLUB 1/2] duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list Wanlong Gao
2012-06-25 10:54 ` Wanlong Gao
2012-06-25 10:54 ` Wanlong Gao
2012-06-26 2:49 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-26 2:49 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-26 2:49 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-25 11:10 ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-25 11:10 ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-25 11:10 ` Glauber Costa
2012-06-26 2:58 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-26 2:58 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-26 2:58 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-27 7:53 ` [PATCH SLUB 1/2 v2] " Li Zhong
2012-06-27 7:53 ` Li Zhong
2012-06-27 7:53 ` Li Zhong
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