Re: [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Dec 08 2006 - 07:59:02 EST


On Fri, Dec 08 2006, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
> > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e94b1766097d53e6f3ccfb36c8baa562ffeda3fc
> > Commit: e94b1766097d53e6f3ccfb36c8baa562ffeda3fc
> > Parent: 54e6ecb23951b195d02433a741c7f7cb0b796c78
> > Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Wed Dec 6 20:33:17 2006 -0800
> > Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Thu Dec 7 08:39:24 2006 -0800
> >
> > [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
> >
> > SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Missed one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> --- linux-2.6.19.noarch/mm/mmap.c~ 2006-12-08 06:51:55.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.19.noarch/mm/mmap.c 2006-12-08 06:52:05.000000000 -0500
> @@ -2226,7 +2226,7 @@ int install_special_mapping(struct mm_st
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> int err;
>
> - vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, SLAB_KERNEL);
> + vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (unlikely(vma == NULL))
> return -ENOMEM;
> memset(vma, 0, sizeof(*vma));

What kernel is that?

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Jens Axboe

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