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| author |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> | 2005-06-18 22:46:19 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2005-06-18 22:46:19 -0700 |
| commit | 1944972d3bb651474a5021c9da8d0166ae19f1eb (patch) | |
| tree | cc638b40d8a7dfb4949d4a84a695ec8915c0fc2b | |
| parent | [IPSEC] Use NLMSG_LENGTH in xfrm_exp_state_notify (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-1944972d3bb651474a5021c9da8d0166ae19f1eb.tar.xz linux-dev-1944972d3bb651474a5021c9da8d0166ae19f1eb.zip | |
[SLAB] Introduce kmem_cache_name
This is for use with slab users that pass a dynamically allocated slab name in
kmem_cache_create, so that before destroying the slab one can retrieve the name
and free its memory.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 7d66385ae750..76cf7e60216c 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ extern int kmem_cache_shrink(kmem_cache_t *); extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *, unsigned int __nocast); extern void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *, void *); extern unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_t *); +extern const char *kmem_cache_name(kmem_cache_t *); extern kmem_cache_t *kmem_find_general_cachep(size_t size, int gfpflags); /* Size description struct for general caches. */ diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 840742641152..c78d343b3c5f 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2620,6 +2620,12 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_t *cachep) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size); +const char *kmem_cache_name(kmem_cache_t *cachep) +{ + return cachep->name; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmem_cache_name); + struct ccupdate_struct { kmem_cache_t *cachep; struct array_cache *new[NR_CPUS]; |