From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] vfs: getname/putname overhaul Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 05:08:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20120908030850.GH16230@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1347025085-20285-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20120907205418.244bd797@corrin.poochiereds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120907205418.244bd797@corrin.poochiereds.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Layton Cc: Andi Kleen , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, eparis@redhat.com, linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:54:18PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:26:56 -0700 > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Jeff Layton writes: > > > > > This patchset is a first pass at overhauling the getname/putname > > > interface to use a struct. The idea here is to add a new getname_info > > > struct that allow us to pass around some auxillary info along with > > > the string that getname() returns. > > > > Couldn't you just use some of the free pointers in struct page? > > (lru etc.) > > > > -Andi > > > > We could do that if these were page allocations. They're not, however. > __getname() does a PATH_MAX size allocation out of a slabcache. I get Ok I suppose slab is faster. In this case it's better to track separately I agree. -Andi