Re: [PATCH 0/3] Replace kmalloc with vmalloc in seq_files

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:57 -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> 
> seq_files are often used for debugging data.  When the system is under
> memory pressure, and dumping debugging data starts trying to allocate
> large physically contiguous buffers, it often makes the problem
> worse. 

Shouldn't you be using ->next instead of dumping everything in a single
seqop? That way it can return partial buffers and keep state etc.
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