On 07/04/2012 01:00 PM, Li Zhong wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 15:36 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> > Looking through the emails it seems that there is an issue with alias >> > strings. > To be more precise, there seems no big issue currently. I just wanted to > make following usage of kmem_cache_create (SLUB) possible: > > name = some string kmalloced > kmem_cache_create(name, ...) > kfree(name); Out of curiosity: Why? This is not (currently) possible with the other allocators (may change with christoph's unification patches), so you would be making your code slub-dependent. -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>