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

From: Neil Brown
Date: Mon Apr 23 2007 - 20:50:53 EST


On Monday April 23, clameter@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> > On Monday April 23, clameter@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Would this work? Contains a solution somewhat along the lines of your
> > > thoughts on the subject.
> > >
> >
> > Concept seems sound.
> > Code needs a kfree of the name returned by create_unique_id, and I
> > think ID_STR_LENGTH needs to be at least 34.
>
> Sysfs copies the string?

kobject_set_name copies the string, either into a small char array in
the kobject, or into kmalloced space.
kobject_set_name actually takes a format and arbitrary args and uses
vsnprintf, so it has to make it's own copy.

NeilBrown
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