Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752447AbYAWKJ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:09:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751302AbYAWKJt (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:09:49 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:39624 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751141AbYAWKJt (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:09:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:43:29 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc_Greni=E9?= Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vmalloc_32 and SLAB incompatible in 2.6.23.9 Message-ID: <20080123104329.GB25136@one.firstfloor.org> References: <9b06e8d20801230114v1e09e5e8s6a4b438562c62619@mail.gmail.com> <9b06e8d20801230204t4450191eh996a9d45d3ec32a6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9b06e8d20801230204t4450191eh996a9d45d3ec32a6@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 13 > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/