On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:40:02PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I think you should BUG() if a module calls kmalloc_percpu() outside
> of mod->init(), this is actually implementable.
>
> Andrew's example with some module doing kmalloc_percpu() inside
> of fops->open() is just rediculious.
The disk stats are already per-cpu. So, what happens when you offline/online
a disk ? How do you allocate per-cpu memory during that ?
Thanks
Dipankar
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