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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:03:58 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end
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To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, tj@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:50:29 -0700
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:35:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > erk.  So does 2.6.32's vmalloc() actually work correctly on ia64?
> > 
> > Perhaps vmalloc_end wasn't a well chosen name for an arch-specific
> > global variable.
> 
> Can we enable -Wshadow now?  Please?
> 

That would be good.  How much mess would it make?