Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm/slub: Factor out some common code.

[George Spelvin]

> 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.  To fix it
the other way (for SLAB_ flags only) is a patch like this: