From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757271Ab3APBEz (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:04:55 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:16475 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756087Ab3APBEx (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:04:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:02:30 +0800 From: Liu Bo To: Zach Brown Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: add a leak decoder callback Message-ID: <20130116010229.GB3942@liubo> Reply-To: bo.li.liu@oracle.com References: <1358143419-13074-1-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@oracle.com> <0000013c3f0c8af2-361e64b5-f822-4a93-a67e-b2902bb336fc-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130115170105.GP12288@lenny.home.zabbo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130115170105.GP12288@lenny.home.zabbo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:01:05AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: > > The merge processing occurs during kmem_cache_create and you are setting > > up the decoder field afterwards! Wont work. > > In the thread I suggested providing the callback at destruction: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg21130.html > > I liked that it limits accesibility of the callback to the only path > that uses it. Well, I was trying to avoid API change, but seems we have to, I'll update the patch as your suggestion in the next version. thanks, liubo