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mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()

The last user was ext4 and Eric Sandeen removed the call in a recent patch. See
the following URL for the discussion:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=129546975702198&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Christoph Lameter 14 years ago
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4 changed files with 0 additions and 21 deletions
  1. 0 1
      include/linux/slab.h
  2. 0 8
      mm/slab.c
  3. 0 6
      mm/slob.c
  4. 0 6
      mm/slub.c

+ 0 - 1
include/linux/slab.h

@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *);
 int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
 void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *);
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
-const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
 
 /*
  * Please use this macro to create slab caches. Simply specify the

+ 0 - 8
mm/slab.c

@@ -2147,8 +2147,6 @@ static int __init_refok setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfp)
  *
  * @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
  *
@@ -3840,12 +3838,6 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
 
-const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
-{
-	return cachep->name;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmem_cache_name);
-
 /*
  * This initializes kmem_list3 or resizes various caches for all nodes.
  */

+ 0 - 6
mm/slob.c

@@ -666,12 +666,6 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *c)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
 
-const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *c)
-{
-	return c->name;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_name);
-
 int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *d)
 {
 	return 0;

+ 0 - 6
mm/slub.c

@@ -2399,12 +2399,6 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
 
-const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *s)
-{
-	return s->name;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_name);
-
 static void list_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
 							const char *text)
 {