From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [KJ] Re: [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create()
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:14:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52mzkfrily.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436FF70D.6040604@us.ibm.com> (Matthew Dobson's message of "Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:53:33 -0800")
> * Replace a constant (4096) with what it represents (PAGE_SIZE)
This seems dangerous. I don't pretend to understand the slab code,
but the current code works on architectures with PAGE_SIZE != 4096.
Are you sure this change is correct?
- R.
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From: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
To: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org,
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create()
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:14:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52mzkfrily.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436FF70D.6040604@us.ibm.com> (Matthew Dobson's message of "Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:53:33 -0800")
> * Replace a constant (4096) with what it represents (PAGE_SIZE)
This seems dangerous. I don't pretend to understand the slab code,
but the current code works on architectures with PAGE_SIZE != 4096.
Are you sure this change is correct?
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 0:45 [KJ] [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:45 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:48 ` [KJ] [PATCH 1/8] Apply CodingStyle to mm/slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:48 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:50 ` [KJ] [PATCH 2/8] Use 'nid' in slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:50 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 7:52 ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 7:52 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 8:48 ` [KJ] " Håkon Løvdal
2005-11-08 0:52 ` [KJ] [PATCH 3/8] Fix alloc_percpu()'s args Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:52 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:53 ` [KJ] [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:53 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 2:14 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-11-08 2:14 ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-08 7:34 ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 7:34 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:49 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:49 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:52 ` [KJ] " Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 18:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:04 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:04 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:09 ` [KJ] " Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:21 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:21 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:59 ` [KJ] " Manfred Spraul
2005-11-08 19:59 ` Manfred Spraul
2005-11-08 7:51 ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 7:51 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:54 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:54 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 15:00 ` [KJ] " Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-08 15:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-08 15:11 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 15:11 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 19:10 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:10 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:55 ` [KJ] [PATCH 5/8] Cleanup cache_reap() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:55 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:57 ` [KJ] [PATCH 6/8] Cleanup slabinfo_write() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:57 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 10:50 ` [KJ] " Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-08 10:50 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-08 18:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 18:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:09 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:09 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:58 ` [KJ] [PATCH 7/8] Cleanup set_slab_attr() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 0:58 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 9:43 ` [KJ] " walter harms
2005-11-08 18:59 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 1:00 ` [KJ] [PATCH 8/8] Inline 3 functions Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 1:00 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 7:39 ` [KJ] " Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 7:39 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:59 ` [KJ] " Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 18:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:08 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:08 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 10:42 ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 10:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 17:04 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 17:04 ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 17:38 ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 17:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 18:04 ` [KJ] " Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 18:04 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 18:20 ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 18:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 19:22 ` [KJ] " Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 19:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 20:43 ` [KJ] " Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 20:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-08 7:58 ` [KJ] Re: [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 7:58 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:56 ` [KJ] " Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:56 ` Matthew Dobson
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