Re: [PATCH] slab: fix kmem_ptr_validate prototype

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Some fallout of: 2e892f43ccb602e8ffad73396a1000f2040c9e0b
> 
>   CC mm/slab.o /usr/src/linux-2.6-git/mm/slab.c:3557: error: conflicting 
> types for ÿÿkmem_ptr_validateÿÿ 
> /usr/src/linux-2.6-git/include/linux/slab.h:58: error: previous 
> declaration of ÿÿkmem_ptr_validateÿÿ was here

Why do we need the fastcall there? What is its role?