On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > When creating a cache, slub keeps a copy of the cache name through > strdup. The slab however, doesn't do that. This means that everyone > registering caches have to keep a copy themselves anyway, since code > needs to work on all allocators. > > Having slab create a copy of it as well may very well be the right > thing to do: but at this point, the callers are already there What would break if we would add that to slab? I think this is more robust because right now slab relies on the caller not freeing the string. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>