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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: [PATCH] Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:56:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081121125622.11468.97451.stgit@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)

kmem_cache implementations like slub are allowed to merge multiple
caches but only the initial name is preserved. Therefore,
kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer passed to
the former function. This patch updates the documentation to make this
clearer.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
---
 mm/slab.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 4887f1b..8924a03 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2124,6 +2124,8 @@ static int __init_refok setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
  *
  * @name must be valid until the cache is destroyed. This implies that
  * the module calling this has to destroy the cache before getting unloaded.
+ * Note that kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer,
+ * therefore applications must manage it themselves.
  *
  * The flags are
  *


             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-21 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-21 12:56 Catalin Marinas [this message]
2008-11-24  7:56 ` Pekka Enberg

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