Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc

[Daniel Xu]

Hi Shakeel,

On Tue Mar 10, 2020 at 12:40 PM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> 
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It's not really necessary to have contiguous physical memory for xattr
> > values. We no longer need to worry about higher order allocations
> > failing with kvmalloc, especially because the xattr size limit is at
> > 64K.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 
> The patch looks fine to me. However the commit message is too cryptic
> i.e. hard to get the motivation behind the change.
>

Thanks for taking a look. The real reason I did it was because Tejun
said so :).

Tejun, is there a larger reason?


Thanks,
Daniel