Re: 2.6.28-rc6-git1 -- BUG: unable to handle kernel paging requestat ffff8800be8b0019

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 17:53:00 EST


On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> If we assume that, then why does KSYM_NAME_LEN allow 128? I'll agree
> that 128 seems rather on the high side (I'd abhor symbols of anywhere
> near that length in any code I came near), but that's what's allowed,
> so shouldn't SLUB be going along with that?

Your fix looks fine. The maximum symbol length needs to be supported by
list_locations() althought a line with a symbol like that would look a bit
weird.


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