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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: provide interface for retrieving kmem_cache name
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Michal Hocko wrote:

> On Thu 07-11-19 13:26:09, Knut Omang wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 12:58 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Thu 07-11-19 12:54:04, Knut Omang wrote:
> > > > With the restructuring done in commit 9adeaa226988
> > > > ("mm, slab: move memcg_cache_params structure to mm/slab.h")
> > > >
> > > > it is no longer possible for code external to mm to access
> > > > the name of a kmem_cache as struct kmem_cache has effectively become
> > > > opaque. Having access to the cache name is helpful to kernel testing
> > > > infrastructure.
> > > >
> > > > Expose a new function kmem_cache_name to mitigate that.
> > >
> > > Who is going to use that symbol? It is preferred that a user is added in
> > > the same patch as the newly added symbol.
> >
> > Yes, I am aware that that's the normal practice,
> > we're currently using cache->name directly in the kernel
> > unit test framework KTF (https://github.com/oracle/ktf/)
> > which we are working (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/13/111) to get
> > into the kernel in one form or another.
>
> Please add the export with a patch that really needs it.
>

Agree, this patch could be added as a predecessor to the series at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/13/111 which would use it. If it's obvious
why using the kmem cache name is useful in that series, acking this will
be a no brainer.

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