Do not use kmalloc() but kmem_cache_alloc() for the allocation
of the kmem_cache structures in slub.
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-08-03 09:01:06.650720492 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2012-08-03 09:01:23.583012476 -0500
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static inline int sysfs_slab_alias(struc
static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
kfree(s->name);
- kfree(s);
+ kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
}
#endif
@@ -3962,7 +3962,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(c
if (!n)
return NULL;
- s = kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (s) {
if (kmem_cache_open(s, n,
size, align, flags, ctor)) {
@@ -3979,7 +3979,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(c
list_del(&s->list);
kmem_cache_close(s);
}
- kfree(s);
+ kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
}
kfree(n);
return NULL;
@@ -5217,7 +5217,7 @@ static void kmem_cache_release(struct ko
struct kmem_cache *s = to_slab(kobj);
kfree(s->name);
- kfree(s);
+ kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
}
static const struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = {
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