On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 08:54:18PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:26:56 -0700 > Andi Kleen <andi(a)firstfloor.org&gt; wrote: > > > Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)redhat.com&gt; writes: > > > > > This patchset is a first pass at overhauling the getname/putname > > > interface to use a struct. The idea here is to add a new getname_info > > > struct that allow us to pass around some auxillary info along with > > > the string that getname() returns. > > > > Couldn't you just use some of the free pointers in struct page? > > (lru etc.) > > > > -Andi > > > > We could do that if these were page allocations. They're not, however. > __getname() does a PATH_MAX size allocation out of a slabcache. I get Ok I suppose slab is faster. In this case it's better to track separately I agree.