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mm: kmem_cache_create(): make it easier to catch NULL cache names
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:02:30 +0000 (17:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:33 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
commitfe1ff49d0d1c30254dbfc84c3786eb538e0cc7d1
treeaed0b1c5355e42ce27788fa4868dc770cbbebe75tree | snapshot
parent398499d5f3613c47f2143b8c54a04efb5d7a6da9commit | diff
mm: kmem_cache_create(): make it easier to catch NULL cache names

Right now, if you inadvertently pass NULL to kmem_cache_create() at boot
time, it crashes much later after boot somewhere deep inside sysfs which
makes it very non obvious to figure out what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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