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| author | Christoph Lameter | 2006-12-13 00:34:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-12-13 09:05:49 -0800 |
| commit | 2e892f43ccb602e8ffad73396a1000f2040c9e0b (patch) | |
| tree | 2f799810eccebeb5d432daed93ed9654238887b6 /kernel/sys.c | |
| parent | 872225ca77519a243d7e19270b062b0ac53418d8 (diff) | |
[PATCH] Cleanup slab headers / API to allow easy addition of new slab allocators
This is a response to an earlier discussion on linux-mm about splitting
slab.h components per allocator. Patch is against 2.6.19-git11. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=116469577431008&w=2
This patch cleans up the slab header definitions. We define the common
functions of slob and slab in slab.h and put the extra definitions needed
for slab's kmalloc implementations in <linux/slab_def.h>. In order to get
a greater set of common functions we add several empty functions to slob.c
and also rename slob's kmalloc to __kmalloc.
Slob does not need any special definitions since we introduce a fallback
case. If there is no need for a slab implementation to provide its own
kmalloc mess^H^H^Hacros then we simply fall back to __kmalloc functions.
That is sufficient for SLOB.
Sort the function in slab.h according to their functionality. First the
functions operating on struct kmem_cache * then the kmalloc related
functions followed by special debug and fallback definitions.
Also redo a lot of comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>?
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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