linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/decompress_*: only include <linux/slab.h> if STATIC is not defined

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Date:	Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:55:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	sam@...nborg.org, hpa@...or.com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	alain@...ff.lu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org, albin.tonnerre@...e-electrons.com,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...gher.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] lib/decompress_*: only include <linux/slab.h> if
 STATIC is not defined

On Mon,  3 Aug 2009 16:58:16 +0200
Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@...e-electrons.com> wrote:

> These includes were added by 079effb6933f34b9b1b67b08bd4fd7fb672d16ef to
> fix the build when using kmemtrace. However this is not necessary when
> used to create a compressed kernel, and actually creates issues (brings
> a lot of things unavailable in the decompression environment), so don't
> include it if STATIC is defined.
> 

The description "actually creates issues (brings a lot of things
unavailable in the decompression environment)" is inadequate.  Please
describe te problem this patch fixes more completely so that others
(ie: me) can decide whether this patch is needed in 2.6.32, 2.6.31. 
2.6.30, ...


This patch conflicts heavily with

http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/bzip2-lzma-remove-nasty-uncompressed-size-hack-in-pre-boot-environment.patch


What should we do about that?


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