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

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