Commit 561ccd3a authored Dec 22, 2006 by Yasunori Goto Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 22, 2006

[PATCH] handle SLOB with sparsemen



This is to disallow to make SLOB with SMP or SPARSEMEM.  This avoids latent
troubles of SLOB with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.  And fix compile error.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 7de6b805

init/Kconfig

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ config SHMEM

		config SLAB
		default y
		bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
		bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if (EMBEDDED && !SMP && !SPARSEMEM)
		help
		Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
		kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.

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