On Thu, 17 May 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > 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 Ok. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>