Re: 2.6 /proc/interrupts fails on systems with many CPUs

[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:21, Erik Jacobson wrote:

> static int interrupts_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> {
>    unsigned size = 4096 * (1 + num_online_cpus() / 8);
>    char *buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> The kmalloc fails here.

Ew.

We should probably use seq_file here, although vmalloc() should not
hurt.

Why __vmalloc() over vmalloc(), though?  Eh, I do not even know what
__vmalloc() is?? ;)

	Robert Love


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