Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 20 2006 - 06:39:16 EST


Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 1/20/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +produce-useful-info-for-kzalloc-with-debug_slab.patch
> >
> > Make kzalloc() play properly with slab debugging
>
> Hmm. This still leaves kstrdup() broken which is why I would prefer
> the following patch to be applied:

kstrdup() doesn't get used much.

> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113767657400334&w=2

That adds more complexity, IMO. A bit ifdeffy too. __do_kmalloc() should
be __always_inline, methinks?
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