Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

From: Mikulas Patocka
Date: Thu Apr 19 2018 - 12:28:50 EST




On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Eric Dumazet wrote:

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> On 04/19/2018 09:12 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> > These bugs are hard to reproduce because vmalloc falls back to kmalloc
> > only if memory is fragmented.
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> This sentence is wrong.
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> .... because kvmalloc() falls back to vmalloc() ...

Yes. There should be "falls back to vmalloc()".

Mikulas