[PATCH] implement kmem_cache_size()
Currently there is no way to find out the effective object size of a slab cache. XFS has lots of IRIX-derived code that want to do zalloc() style allocations on zones (which are implemented as slab caches in XFS/Linux) and thus needs to know about it. There are three ways do implement it: a) implement kmem_cache_zalloc b) make the xfs zone a struct of kmem_cache_t and a size variable c) implement kmem_cache_size The current XFS tree does a) but I absolutely don't like it as encourages people to use kmem_cache_zalloc for new code instead of thinking about how to utilize slab object reuse. b) would be easy, but I guess kmem_cache_size is usefull enough to get into the kernel. Here's the patch:
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