On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 11:42:42AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > Currently when displaying /proc/slabinfo if any cache names are too long > then the output columns are not aligned. We could do something fancy to > get the maximum length of any cache name in the system or we could just > increase the hardcoded width. Currently it is 17 characters. Monitors > are wide these days so lets just increase it to 30 characters. I had a proposal some time ago to turn the slab name from being kmalloced to being an inline 16 bytes (with some fun hacks for cgroups). I think that's a better approach than permitting such long names. For example, ext4_allocation_context could be shortened to ext4_alloc_ctx without losing any expressivity. Let me know if you can't find that and I'll try to dig it up.
