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

[Shakeel Butt]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:40 PM Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?
>

I understand the reason. I am just suggesting to rephrase it to be more clear.