linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

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Date:	Sat, 5 May 2007 12:22:13 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, jsipek@...sunysb.edu,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, unionfs@...esystems.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:13:13 -0400 Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> As it was discussed a while back on the mailing lists, Unionfs is trying to
> be smart and tries to do reallocation on its own. The way it does it makes
> it depend on some internals of the SLAB allocator. There have been some
> patches out there for a realloc function (by Pekka Enberg, IIRC), but as far
> as I can tell, they haven't been merged in.

krealloc should be in mainline within a couple of days.
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