All that you are saying is true and stuff that Julia and I have discussed before. For this call site though we are not allocating 32k, we're allocating 4 pointers so libcfs_kvzalloc() doesn't make sense. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html