Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm, slab: shorten kmalloc cache names for large sizes

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> +static const char *
> +kmalloc_cache_name(const char *prefix, unsigned int size)
> +{
> +
> +	static const char units[3] = "\0kM";
> +	int idx = 0;
> +
> +	while (size >= 1024 && (size % 1024 == 0)) {
> +		size /= 1024;
> +		idx++;
> +	}
> +
> +	return kasprintf(GFP_NOWAIT, "%s-%u%c", prefix, size, units[idx]);
> +}

This is likely to occur elsewhere in the kernel. Maybe generalize it a
bit?

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux