From: Christoph Lameter The names_cachep is used for getname() and putname(). So lets put it into fs.h near those two definitions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ include/linux/slab.h | 3 --- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~move-names_cachep-to-linux-fsh include/linux/fs.h --- a/include/linux/fs.h~move-names_cachep-to-linux-fsh +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1504,6 +1504,8 @@ extern char * getname(const char __user extern void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void); extern void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long); +extern struct kmem_cache *names_cachep; + #define __getname() kmem_cache_alloc(names_cachep, SLAB_KERNEL) #define __putname(name) kmem_cache_free(names_cachep, (void *)(name)) #ifndef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL diff -puN include/linux/slab.h~move-names_cachep-to-linux-fsh include/linux/slab.h --- a/include/linux/slab.h~move-names_cachep-to-linux-fsh +++ a/include/linux/slab.h @@ -312,9 +312,6 @@ static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, si #endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */ -/* System wide caches */ -extern kmem_cache_t *names_cachep; - #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_SLAB_H */ _