With the restructuring done in commit 9adeaa226988
("mm, slab: move memcg_cache_params structure to mm/slab.h")
it is no longer possible for code external to mm to access
the name of a kmem_cache as struct kmem_cache has effectively become
opaque. Having access to the cache name is helpful to kernel testing
infrastructure.
Expose a new function kmem_cache_name to mitigate that.
Signed-off-by: Knut Omang <knut.omang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/slab.h | 1 +
mm/slab_common.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 4d2a2fa55ed5..3298c9db6e46 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -702,6 +702,7 @@ static inline void *kzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
}
unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s);
+const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *s);
void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void);
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_SLAB)
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index f9fb27b4c843..269a99dc8214 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
+/*
+ * Get the name of a slab object
+ */
+const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+ return s->name;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_name);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
static int kmem_cache_sanity_check(const char *name, unsigned int size)
{
--
2.20.1
