Re: vmalloc_32 and SLAB incompatible in 2.6.23.9

[Andi Kleen]

>      vmalloc_32 is using __vmalloc. I am much too ignorant to try and change
>   anything in mm/*.[ch]. If vmalloc_32 is incompatible with sl[aou]b, should'nt
>   it be either modified or removed ?

vmalloc does not use sl[aou]b for the data pages. That is why it can
support GFP_DMA32 (or even GFP_DMA if you wanted) 

-Andi
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