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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:59:35 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with	_RET_IP_.
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:14:01PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>> Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
>>>
>>>>  void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
>>>>  {
>>>> -	return slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, -1, __builtin_return_address(0));
>>>> +	return slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, -1, (void *) _RET_IP_);
>>>>  }
>>> Could you get rid of the casts by changing the type of parameter of slab_alloc()?
>> I just looked at it and it isn't a trivial change. slab_alloc() calls
>> other functions which expect a void ptr. Even if slab_alloc() were to
>> take an unsigned long and then cast it to a void ptr, other functions do
>> call slab_alloc() with void ptr arguments (so the casts would move
>> there).
>>
>> I'd rather have this merged as it is and change things later, so that
>> kmemtrace gets some testing from Pekka and others. 
>>
> 
> Well maybe this patch will do it then:
> 
> Subject: slub: Use _RET_IP and use "unsigned long" for kernel text addresses
> 
> Use _RET_IP_ instead of buildint_return_address() and make slub use unsigned long
> instead of void * for addresses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Heh, heh. I'm happy to take your patch or alternatively you can ACK mine 
(which is slightly different):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/19/336

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