Re: SLUB: kmem_cache_destroy doesn't - version 2.

From: Neil Brown
Date: Fri Apr 20 2007 - 01:36:38 EST


On Thursday April 19, clameter@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > Not sure how best to fix this one.... kmem_cache_destroy currently
> > doesn't know which alias is being destroyed.
>
> The aliases are there for decorative purposes when running without
> debugging. If one switches on debugging then it matters but then the
> symlinks are not created since there will be no aliases.
>
> I guess we can ignore the problem?

Maybe....
But then if we create the same cache with a different size, we might
need to create a directory in sysfs, but there is already a symlink
there...
It doesn't feel very clean.

NeilBrown
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