Re: 2.6.23 compile failure - slab/slob interspanking

[Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:00:08PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 81cda6626178cd55297831296ba8ecedbfd8b52d is first bad commit
> commit 81cda6626178cd55297831296ba8ecedbfd8b52d
> Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 17 04:03:29 2007 -0700
> 
>     Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations
>     
>     It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline
>     functions in slab.h.  Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of
>     kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing
>     functions from the slab allocators and util.c.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 
This fixes it for me with your .config:

slob: Kill off duplicate kzalloc() definition.

With the slab zeroing allocations cleanups Christoph stubbed in a generic
kzalloc(), which was missed on SLOB. Follow the SLAB/SLUB changes and
kill off the __kzalloc() wrapper that SLOB was using.

Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

--

 include/linux/slob_def.h |   10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/slob_def.h b/include/linux/slob_def.h
index a2daf2d..59a3fa4 100644
--- a/include/linux/slob_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slob_def.h
@@ -33,14 +33,4 @@ static inline void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 	return kmalloc(size, flags);
 }
 
-/**
- * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
- * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
- * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kcalloc).
- */
-static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	return __kzalloc(size, flags);
-}
-
 #endif /* __LINUX_SLOB_DEF_H */