Re: [PATCH] crypto: lzo: try kmalloc() before vmalloc()

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 01:30 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Looks good to me.  This would seem like something that could be
> generalised to other vmalloc users, no?
> 

Yep, we have some spots where this is done, and we had attempts in the
past to get a generic allocator / deallocator but this went nowhere,
after a lot of time trying to get this right.

I guess we need to reach some threshold to convince Andrew Morton ;)

$ git grep -n is_vmalloc_addr | wc -l
85



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