Re: 2.6.23 compile failure - slab/slob interspanking

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 20:50:26 EST


On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:18:36AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:00:08PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 81cda6626178cd55297831296ba8ecedbfd8b52d is first bad commit
> > commit 81cda6626178cd55297831296ba8ecedbfd8b52d
> > Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> 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.

Looks fine to me.

> Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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