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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Neil Brown wrote:

> 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.

Right. Sigh. But there is no user of the symlinks.

I could drop the symlinks completely. Just do not track what names a cache 
aliases to?


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