[PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocator

The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily
using the slab allocator.  However, they are conceptually slab.  This also
simplifies SLOB (at this point slob may be broken in mm.  This should fix
it).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Mackall <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Christoph Lameter 2006-09-25 23:31:50 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit d00bcc98d7
4 changed files with 130 additions and 170 deletions

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@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLAB) += slab.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FS_XIP) += filemap_xip.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o