linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: rename kmalloc-node cache to kmalloc-<size>

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 06:52:38 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, slab: rename kmalloc-node cache to kmalloc-<size>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index a95fd4fed0a8..ede31b59bb9f 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -1293,7 +1293,8 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
>  	 * Initialize the caches that provide memory for the  kmem_cache_node
>  	 * structures first.  Without this, further allocations will bug.
>  	 */
> -	kmalloc_caches[INDEX_NODE] = create_kmalloc_cache("kmalloc-node",
> +	kmalloc_caches[INDEX_NODE] = create_kmalloc_cache(
> +				get_kmalloc_cache_name(INDEX_NODE),

Could we lose the 'get_' from the front?  I think 'kmalloc_cache_name()' is
just as informative.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>