On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:07 AM, George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I certainly don't but I'd still like to ask you to change it to
>> 'unsigned long'. That's a Linux kernel idiom and we're not going to
>> change the whole kernel.
>
> Damn, and I just prepared the following patch. Should I, instead, do
>
> --- a/include/linux/slab_def.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab_def.h
> @@ -62,5 +62,5 @@ struct kmem_cache {
> /* 3) touched by every alloc & free from the backend */
>
> - unsigned int flags; /* constant flags */
> + unsigned long flags; /* constant flags */
> unsigned int num; /* # of objs per slab */
>
> ... because the original slab code uses an unsigned int.
Looks good to me.
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