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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/3] proc/meminfo: introduce extra meminfo
On (20/03/11 12:44), Jaewon Kim wrote:
[..]
> +#define NAME_SIZE 15
> +#define NAME_BUF_SIZE (NAME_SIZE + 2) /* ':' and '\0' */
> +
> +struct extra_meminfo {
> + struct list_head list;
> + atomic_long_t *val;
> + int shift_for_page;
> + char name[NAME_BUF_SIZE];
> + char name_pad[NAME_BUF_SIZE];
> +};
> +
> +int register_extra_meminfo(atomic_long_t *val, int shift, const char *name)
> +{
> + struct extra_meminfo *meminfo, *memtemp;
> + int len;
> + int error = 0;
> +
> + meminfo = kzalloc(sizeof(*meminfo), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!meminfo) {
> + error = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + meminfo->val = val;
> + meminfo->shift_for_page = shift;
> + strncpy(meminfo->name, name, NAME_SIZE);
> + len = strlen(meminfo->name);
> + meminfo->name[len] = ':';
> + strncpy(meminfo->name_pad, meminfo->name, NAME_BUF_SIZE);

What happens if there is no NULL byte among the first NAME_SIZE bytes
of passed `name'?

[..]

> + spin_lock(&meminfo_lock);

Does this need to be a spinlock?

-ss

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