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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 37961d1f584f..4bab2d1a8291 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/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.
  */