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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 21 May 2012, David Rientjes wrote:

> This doesn't work if you kmem_cache_destroy() a cache that was created
> when g_cpucache_cpu <= EARLY, the kfree() will explode.  That never
> happens for any existing cache created in kmem_cache_init(), but this
> would introduce the first roadblock in doing so.  So you'll need some
> magic to determine whether the cache was allocated statically and suppress
> the kfree() in such a case.

Nope. Only slab management caches will be created that early. The patch is
fine as is.


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