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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.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-08  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-08  0:45 [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:48 ` [PATCH 1/8] Apply CodingStyle to mm/slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:50 ` [PATCH 2/8] Use 'nid' in slab.c Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  7:52   ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08  0:52 ` [PATCH 3/8] Fix alloc_percpu()'s args Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] Cleanup kmem_cache_create() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  2:14   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-11-08  7:34     ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:49       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 18:52     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:04       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:09         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:21           ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 19:59             ` Manfred Spraul
2005-11-08  7:51   ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:54     ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 15:00   ` [KJ] " Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-08 15:11     ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 19:10       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] Cleanup cache_reap() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:57 ` [PATCH 6/8] Cleanup slabinfo_write() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08 10:50   ` [KJ] " Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-08 18:56     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:09       ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  0:58 ` [PATCH 7/8] Cleanup set_slab_attr() Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  1:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] Inline 3 functions Matthew Dobson
2005-11-08  7:39   ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:59     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-08 19:08     ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 10:42       ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 17:04         ` Matthew Dobson
2005-11-10 17:38           ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 18:04             ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 18:20               ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 19:22                 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-10 20:43                   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-08  7:58 ` [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-08 18:56   ` Matthew Dobson

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