Re: [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Mar 28 2006 - 21:07:57 EST


From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:57:46 +0900

> I feel like I mist be dreaming, but this patch, which was inlcuded
> in Linus' tree as 40c07ae8daa659b8feb149c84731629386873c16 calls
> __you_cannot_kzalloc_that_much(), but that does not seem to exist.
>
> On i386 at least that causes a build failure

It's a purposeful build time error introduced so that invalid calls
that specify too large kzalloc() length arguments are caught at build
time.
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