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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] slub: name kmalloc slabs at creation time
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Iliyan Malchev wrote:

> This patch reserves a small static array to hold the names of the kmalloc
> slabs, and uses a small helper function __uitoa (unsigned integer to ascii) to
> format names as appropriately

simple_strtoull etc is not satisfactory?

> +/* Convert a positive integer to its decimal string representation, starting at
> + * the end of the buffer and going backwards, not exceeding maxlen characters.
> + */
> +static __init char *__pos_int_to_string(unsigned int value, char* string,
> + int maxindex, int maxlen)
> +{
> + int i = maxindex - 1;
> + string[maxindex] = 0;
> + for (; value && i && maxlen; i--, maxlen--, value /= 10)
> + string[i] = '0' + (value % 10);
> + return string + i + 1;
> +}

Please use the standard string operations of the kernel.

> @@ -3652,8 +3671,15 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
> caches++;
> }
>
> + name_start = kmalloc_cache_names;
> for (i = KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW; i < SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT; i++) {
> - kmalloc_caches[i] = create_kmalloc_cache("kmalloc", 1 << i, 0);
> + char *name = __pos_int_to_string(1 << i, name_start,
> + KMALLOC_NAME_MAX - 1,
> + KMALLOC_NAME_SUFFIX_MAX);
> + name -= 8;

8 is what? The length of "kmalloc-" right?



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