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Hi,

On 31/07/13 19:04, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Wladislav Wiebe wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the point, do you plan to make kmalloc_large available for extern access in a separate mainline patch?
>> Since kmalloc_large is statically defined in slub_def.h and when including it to seq_file.c
>> we have a lot of conflicting types:
> 
> You cannot separatly include slub_def.h. slab.h includes slub_def.h for
> you. What problem did you try to fix by doing so?
> 
> There is a patch pending that moves kmalloc_large to slab.h. So maybe we
> have to wait a merge period in order to be able to use it with other
> allocators than slub.
> 
> 

ok, just saw in slab/for-linus branch that those stuff is reverted again..

commit 4932163637fbb9aaa654ca0703c5a624b7809da2
Author: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed Jul 10 10:16:01 2013 +0300

    Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmalloc_node functions to common code"

..

commit 35be03cafb8f5ddcc1236e90144b6ec76296b789
Author: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed Jul 10 09:56:49 2013 +0300

    Revert "mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmalloc definitions to slab.h"


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