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Message-ID: <20080805090502.GA3039@hack.voiplan.pt>
Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:05:02 +0100
From:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
Cc:	stable@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] uml: fix build when SLOB is enabled

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
>>From 94409ded7768e15b0d0a5a172d611073c72308de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>
>Reintroduce uml_kmalloc for the benefit of UML libc code.  The
>previous tactic of declaring __kmalloc so it could be called directly
>from the libc side of the house turned out to be getting too intimate
>with slab, and it doesn't work with slob.
>
>So, the uml_kmalloc wrapper is back.  It calls kmalloc or whatever
>that translates into, and libc code calls it.
>
>kfree is left alone since that still works, leaving a somewhat
>inconsistent API.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@...ux.intel.com>
>Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
>Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

Looks good. Thanks. :)


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