On 03/22/2013 12:17 PM, Li Zefan wrote:
>> GFP_TEMPORARY groups short lived allocations but the mem cache is not
>> > an ideal candidate of this type of allocations..
>> >
> I'm not sure I'm following you...
>
> char *memcg_cache_name()
> {
> char *name = alloc();
> return name;
> }
>
> kmem_cache_dup()
> {
> name = memcg_cache_name();
> kmem_cache_create_memcg(name);
> free(name);
> }
>
> Isn't this a short lived allocation?
>
Hi,
Thanks for identifying and fixing this.
Li is right. The cache name will live long, but this is because the
slab/slub caches will strdup it internally. So the actual memcg
allocation is short lived.
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