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SubjectRe: linux-next: build failure after merge of the slab tree
Here is a patch to fix ext4 (and slab)

Subject: ext4: Remove use of kmem_cache_name

Remove the use of kmem_cache_name from ext4. In order to do that we need to
strdup the name of the cache passed to kmem_cache_create.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>


---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 12 ++----------
mm/slab.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/mballoc.c 2011-02-08 09:02:40.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/mballoc.c 2011-02-08 09:11:16.000000000 -0600
@@ -2448,15 +2448,10 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb,
bb_counters[sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2]);

sprintf(name, "ext4_groupinfo_%d", sb->s_blocksize_bits);
- namep = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!namep) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }

/* Need to free the kmem_cache_name() when we
* destroy the slab */
- cachep = kmem_cache_create(namep, len, 0,
+ cachep = kmem_cache_create(name, len, 0,
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!cachep) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -2746,11 +2741,8 @@ void ext4_exit_mballoc(void)

for (i = 0; i < NR_GRPINFO_CACHES; i++) {
struct kmem_cache *cachep = ext4_groupinfo_caches[i];
- if (cachep) {
- char *name = (char *)kmem_cache_name(cachep);
+ if (cachep)
kmem_cache_destroy(cachep);
- kfree(name);
- }
}
ext4_remove_debugfs_entry();
}
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab.c 2011-02-08 09:06:38.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slab.c 2011-02-08 09:09:48.000000000 -0600
@@ -2005,6 +2005,7 @@ static void __kmem_cache_destroy(struct
kfree(l3);
}
}
+ kfree(cachep->name);
kmem_cache_free(&cache_cache, cachep);
}

@@ -2412,7 +2413,11 @@ kmem_cache_create (const char *name, siz
BUG_ON(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(cachep->slabp_cache));
}
cachep->ctor = ctor;
- cachep->name = name;
+ if (slab_is_available())
+ cachep->name = strdup(name);
+ else
+ /* Will never be freed so it does not matter */
+ cachep->name = name;

if (setup_cpu_cache(cachep, gfp)) {
__kmem_cache_destroy(cachep);

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