Philip Nye wrote: > Is there a consensus on the slab allocator of choice in a NoMMU build? > > Since it is described as a "drastically simpler allocator" I thought > SLOB would suit my minimalist approach, but the my kernel will not > boot with it. > I do not know whether this is simply a matter of tweaking some other > option to match, or whether it is a more fundamental barrier which > will require a lot of work. For the moment I have reverted to SLUB > which works. > > I am running kernel 2.6.30 on a Coldfire (M5272) with Codesourcery > tool chain. I will let other chime in as well, but when I was making these same decisions earlier someone mentioned that some of these allocators simply do not work for noMMU, so I just stuck with SLUB like you have and moved on. I never looked into what exactly was broken in SLOB though,
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