From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
stable@kernel.org,
uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/14] uml: fix build when SLOB is enabled
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:05:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805090502.GA3039@hack.voiplan.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801224125.GA13727@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
From 94409ded7768e15b0d0a5a172d611073c72308de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>
>Reintroduce uml_kmalloc for the benefit of UML libc code. The
>previous tactic of declaring __kmalloc so it could be called directly
>from the libc side of the house turned out to be getting too intimate
>with slab, and it doesn't work with slob.
>
>So, the uml_kmalloc wrapper is back. It calls kmalloc or whatever
>that translates into, and libc code calls it.
>
>kfree is left alone since that still works, leaving a somewhat
>inconsistent API.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
>Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Looks good. Thanks. :)
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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] uml: fix build when SLOB is enabled
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:05:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805090502.GA3039@hack.voiplan.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801224125.GA13727@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
>From 94409ded7768e15b0d0a5a172d611073c72308de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>
>Reintroduce uml_kmalloc for the benefit of UML libc code. The
>previous tactic of declaring __kmalloc so it could be called directly
>from the libc side of the house turned out to be getting too intimate
>with slab, and it doesn't work with slob.
>
>So, the uml_kmalloc wrapper is back. It calls kmalloc or whatever
>that translates into, and libc code calls it.
>
>kfree is left alone since that still works, leaving a somewhat
>inconsistent API.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
>Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Looks good. Thanks. :)
--
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.
--Elie Wiesel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 22:41 [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/14] uml: fix build when SLOB is enabled Jeff Dike
2008-08-01 22:41 ` Jeff Dike
2008-08-01 23:06 ` [uml-devel] [stable] " Greg KH
2008-08-01 23:06 ` Greg KH
2008-08-02 1:00 ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2008-08-02 1:00 ` Jeff Dike
2008-08-05 9:05 ` WANG Cong [this message]
2008-08-05 9:05 ` WANG Cong
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2008-08-05 20:14 [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
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