Struct shrinker does not have a field to uniquely identify the shrinkers
it represents. It would be helpful to have a new field to hold names of
shrinkers. This information would be useful while analyzing their
behavior using tracepoints.

---
 include/linux/shrinker.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 4fcacd9..431125c 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct shrinker {
        unsigned long (*scan_objects)(struct shrinker *,
                                      struct shrink_control *sc);
 
+       const char *name;
        int seeks;      /* seeks to recreate an obj */
        long batch;     /* reclaim batch size, 0 = default */
        unsigned long flags;
-- 
2.7.0

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