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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Loïc Grenié" <loic.grenie@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmalloc_32 and SLAB incompatible in 2.6.23.9
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:43:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080123104329.GB25136@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b06e8d20801230204t4450191eh996a9d45d3ec32a6@mail.gmail.com>

>      vmalloc_32 is using __vmalloc. I am much too ignorant to try and change
>   anything in mm/*.[ch]. If vmalloc_32 is incompatible with sl[aou]b, should'nt
>   it be either modified or removed ?

vmalloc does not use sl[aou]b for the data pages. That is why it can
support GFP_DMA32 (or even GFP_DMA if you wanted) 

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-23 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-23  9:14 Loïc Grenié
2008-01-23  9:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 10:04   ` Loïc Grenié
2008-01-23 10:43     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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