Re: [PATCH] slab+slob: dup name string

[Glauber Costa]

On 05/24/2012 04:18 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Of course reasoning about why it was added helps (so let's try to
> > >  determine that), but so far the only reasonably strong argument in
> > >  favor of keeping it was robustness.
> I'm pretty sure it was added because there are slab names
> constructed by snprintf on a stack buffer, so the name doesn't exist
> beyond the slab initialisation function call...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
If that was the reason, we'd be seeing slab failing miserably where slub 
succeeds, since slab keeps no copy.


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