Re: [PATCH] kmsg: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc when writing

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Mar 30 2012 - 18:54:33 EST


On Friday 30 March 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I think so. This is an interface to inject stuff into dmesg. Limiting
> that to a reasonable size makes sense. We can probably limit it to
> something small like 1024, but I don't know about the "ideas" of those
> folks who think that it's a great idea to do it at all.

I guess a page would be a reasonable size, similar to what we do for
sysfs.

Arnd
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