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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] mm, slab: Make kmalloc_info[] contain all types of names
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On 9/3/19 6:04 PM, Pengfei Li wrote:
> There are three types of kmalloc, KMALLOC_NORMAL, KMALLOC_RECLAIM
> and KMALLOC_DMA.
>
> The name of KMALLOC_NORMAL is contained in kmalloc_info[].name,
> but the names of KMALLOC_RECLAIM and KMALLOC_DMA are dynamically
> generated by kmalloc_cache_name().
>
> This patch predefines the names of all types of kmalloc to save
> the time spent dynamically generating names.

As I said, IMHO it's more useful that we don't need to allocate the
names dynamically anymore, and it's simpler overall.

> Signed-off-by: Pengfei Li <lpf.vector@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> /*
> * kmalloc_info[] is to make slub_debug=,kmalloc-xx option work at boot time.
> * kmalloc_index() supports up to 2^26=64MB, so the final entry of the table is
> * kmalloc-67108864.
> */
> const struct kmalloc_info_struct kmalloc_info[] __initconst = {

BTW should it really be an __initconst, when references to the names
keep on living in kmem_cache structs? Isn't this for data that's
discarded after init?

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