On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:26:56 -0700 Andi Kleen <andi(a)firstfloor.org&gt; wrote: 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 the impression that at one point, this was done with page allocations. I assume that this was changed over to a slabcache since not all arches have a 4k PAGE_SIZE. That's not a bad idea though. We could switch __getname over to doing a page allocation instead, but it would mean quite a bit of wasted space on arches with >4k pages. That said, these allocations are generally quite short-lived so maybe that's not such a big deal. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)redhat.com&gt;