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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: horms@verge.net.au
Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:06:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060328.180605.96459770.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060329015745.GA29301@verge.net.au>

From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:57:46 +0900

> I feel like I mist be dreaming, but this patch, which was inlcuded
> in Linus' tree as 40c07ae8daa659b8feb149c84731629386873c16 calls
> __you_cannot_kzalloc_that_much(), but that does not seem to exist.
> 
> On i386 at least that causes a build failure

It's a purposeful build time error introduced so that invalid calls
that specify too large kzalloc() length arguments are caught at build
time.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-29  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20 15:35 Pekka Enberg
2006-03-21 11:21 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-21 11:30   ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-03-29  1:57 ` Horms
2006-03-29  2:06   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-03-29  4:12     ` Horms

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