On 05/16/2012 06:33 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Also, the only reasons it exists, seems to be to go around the fact that the
> slab already adds the kmalloc caches to a list in a slightly different way.
> And there has to be cleaner ways to achieve that.
The reason it exists is to distinguish the case of an alias creation from
a true kmem_cache instatiation. The alias does not need to be added to the
list of slabs.
Worth a comment, then, maybe ? It tricked me a bit
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