Re: [PATCH 3/6] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where arraysize is too large

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Jul 27 2009 - 01:15:58 EST


Ben Blum wrote:
> Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large
>
> Separates all pidlist allocation requests to a separate function that judges
> based on the requested size whether or not the array needs to be vmalloced or
> can be gotten via kmalloc, and similar for kfree/vfree. Should be replaced
> entirely with a kernel-wide solution to this general problem.
>
> Depends on cgroup-pidlist-namespace.patch, cgroup-procs.patch
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

We'll either use flex_array or implement Paul's proposal, so I think
we can drop this patch?

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