On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:37:06AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > xfs: handle kmalloc failure when reading attrs > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > xfsdump uses for a large buffer for extended attributes, which has a > kmalloc'd shadow buffer in the kernel. This can fail after the > system has been running for some time as it is a high order > allocation. Convert this to a vmalloc so that it doesn't require > contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail while xfsdump is > running. I think this should use kmalloc for allocation smaller than a page to avoid the vmalloc overhead for the usual case of small attributes. Also the fs/xattr.c code for the normal xattr system calls needs the same treatment. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
