Commit 249da166 authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas Committed by Pekka Enberg

slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter

kmem_cache implementations like slub are allowed to merge multiple
caches but only the initial name is preserved. Therefore,
kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer passed to
the former function. This patch updates the documentation to make this
clearer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
parent ed313489
......@@ -2123,6 +2123,8 @@ static int __init_refok setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
*
* @name must be valid until the cache is destroyed. This implies that
* the module calling this has to destroy the cache before getting unloaded.
* Note that kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer,
* therefore applications must manage it themselves.
*
* The flags are
*
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