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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:49:38 +0100
From:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Alberto Bertogli <albertito@...tiri.com.ar>
Cc:	jdike@...toit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml: Make vde_user.c build again

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:43:19PM -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
>Commit 43f5b308 ("uml: fix build when SLOB is enabled") removed kmalloc()
>from um_malloc.h, which breaks vde_user.c.
>
>This patch fixes it by making vde_user.c call uml_kmalloc() instead of
>kmalloc().
>
>Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@...tiri.com.ar>
>---
>
>This patch is against the Linus' current (as of about 5 minutes ago) tree.
>Without this patch, it wouldn't build.
>
>I've tested it by booting my uml image, connecting it to the internet using
>vde_witch, and doing some network operations (some aptitude installs).
>
>Thanks a lot,
>		Alberto
>
>
> arch/um/drivers/vde_user.c |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/vde_user.c b/arch/um/drivers/vde_user.c
>index 56533db..744eacf 100644
>--- a/arch/um/drivers/vde_user.c
>+++ b/arch/um/drivers/vde_user.c
>@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void vde_init_libstuff(struct vde_data *vpri, struct vde_init *init)
> {
> 	struct vde_open_args *args;
> 
>-	vpri->args = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vde_open_args), UM_GFP_KERNEL);
>+	vpri->args = uml_kmalloc(sizeof(struct vde_open_args), UM_GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (vpri->args == NULL) {
> 		printk(UM_KERN_ERR "vde_init_libstuff - vde_open_args "
> 		       "allocation failed");

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