From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@fastmail.fm>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [3.12 1/3] Move kmallocXXX functions to common code
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:54:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520B9A0E.4020009@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00000140785e1062-89326db9-3999-43c1-b081-284dd49b3d9b-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On 08/13/2013 06:49 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so
> lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes
> in slob.
>
> As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for
> all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available
> in general to perform large order allocations that go directly
> via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if
> kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations.
>
> kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but
> can only used for allocations > PAGE_SIZE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
I already applied an earlier version that's now breaking linux-next.
Can you please send incremental fixes on top of slab/next?
I'd prefer not to rebase...
Pekka
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-14 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20130813154940.741769876@linux.com>
2013-08-13 15:49 ` [3.12 2/3] slub: remove verify_mem_not_deleted() Christoph Lameter
2013-08-13 15:49 ` [3.12 1/3] Move kmallocXXX functions to common code Christoph Lameter
2013-08-14 14:54 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2013-08-14 15:28 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-08-14 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-14 16:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-14 14:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-08-14 16:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-13 15:59 ` [3.12 3/3] seq_file: Use kmalloc_large for page sized allocation Christoph Lameter
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