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Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:50:25 +1000
From:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SLUB: kmem_cache_destroy doesn't - version 2.

On Monday April 23, clameter@....com wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Monday April 23, clameter@....com 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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