On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:13:18 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Why? We already construct the name in memcg_create_kmem_cache() > > > appropriately, we just want to avoid the kstrdup() in > > > kmem_cache_create_memcg() since it's pointless like my patch does. > > > > oh, OK, missed that. > > > > The problem now is that the string at kmem_cache.name is PATH_MAX > > bytes, and PATH_MAX is huuuuuuuge. > > > > It always was. eh? kmem_cache_create_memcg()'s kstrdup() will allocate the minimum needed amount of memory. -- 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>