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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize()
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:23:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080523142341.GA28257@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020805220913g344baedaqb0996adecdadae99@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:13:56PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>...
> However, I think we should just look at getting rid of ksize()
> altogether as it's only (ab)used by the nommu code and few call-sites
> that open-code krealloc().

As soon as your patch for the netfilter usage enters Linus' tree you can 
unexport it which will at least make new abuses from modules impossible.

>                        Pekka

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 18:25 Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-21 23:45 ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22  4:13   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22  4:21       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:34         ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22  4:43           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22  4:55             ` Paul Mundt
2008-05-22 15:01             ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-22 16:13               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-22 16:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-22 18:31                 ` Matt Mackall
2008-05-23 14:23                 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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