Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:44:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, jdike@addtoit.com,
       blaisorblade@yahoo.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob: fix linking for user mode linux
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:

> Can someone explain why the magic is needed (and preferably capture it
> in a comment somewhere sensible)? I took a peek at this and have no idea
> what's going on. 

UML defined its own external __kmalloc and things. Isnt there some other 
way to fix it? I guess including slab.h is not possible here?


/*
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
 * Licensed under the GPL
 */

#ifndef __UM_MALLOC_H__
#define __UM_MALLOC_H__

#include "kern_constants.h"

extern void *__kmalloc(int size, int flags);
static inline void *kmalloc(int size, int flags)
{
        return __kmalloc(size, flags);
}

extern void kfree(const void *ptr);

extern void *vmalloc(unsigned long size);
extern void vfree(void *ptr);

#endif /* __UM_MALLOC_H__ */
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