On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:18:27 -0600 Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2010-11-16, at 16:11, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:28:54 -0800 (PST) > > David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> - avoid doing anything other than GFP_KERNEL allocations for __vmalloc(): > >> the only current users are gfs2, ntfs, and ceph (the page allocator > >> __vmalloc() can be discounted since it's done at boot and GFP_ATOMIC > >> here has almost no chance of failing since the size is determined based > >> on what is available). > > > > ^^ this > > > > Using vmalloc anywhere is lame. > > I agree. What we really want is 1MB kmalloc() to work... :-/ meh. Thinking that you require 1MB of virtually contiguous memory in kernel code is lame. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>