Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:48:24 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: clean up SLAB_KERNEL non-usage |
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:03:24AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:40:54AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> Use SLAB_KERNEL and SLAB_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC > >> when passing args to slab allocation functions. > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:49:31AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Why? I'd prefer to completly get rid of the SLAB_ flags instead. > > (stupid slowaris compat..) > > IMHO different API, different flags. The inverse is not that difficult > to produce, though.
I don't think this make much sense - kmalloc is a a different interface to the same slab code and uses GFP_ flags, and __alloc_pages uses it aswell.
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