Re: [RESEND v4 1/7] mm, slab: Make kmalloc_info[] contain all types of names

From: Pengfei Li
Date: Mon Sep 16 2019 - 10:52:28 EST


On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:38 AM David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Pengfei Li wrote:
>
> > There are three types of kmalloc, KMALLOC_NORMAL, KMALLOC_RECLAIM
> > and KMALLOC_DMA.
> >
> > The name of KMALLOC_NORMAL is contained in kmalloc_info[].name,
> > but the names of KMALLOC_RECLAIM and KMALLOC_DMA are dynamically
> > generated by kmalloc_cache_name().
> >
> > This patch predefines the names of all types of kmalloc to save
> > the time spent dynamically generating names.
> >
> > Besides, remove the kmalloc_cache_name() that is no longer used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pengfei Li <lpf.vector@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks.

> It's unfortunate the existing names are kmalloc-, dma-kmalloc-, and
> kmalloc-rcl- since they aren't following any standard naming convention.
>
> Also not sure I understand the SET_KMALLOC_SIZE naming since this isn't
> just setting a size. Maybe better off as INIT_KMALLOC_INFO?

Yes, this name is really better. I will rename SET_KMALLOC_SIZE to
INIT_KMALLOC_INFO in v5.

>
> Nothing major though, so:
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>