Re: fs/stat: Reduce memory requirements for stat_open

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Stefan Bader wrote:

> Heiko and I both had the same issue. Since some x86 hardware also reaches a lot
> of CPUs (hyperthreads included), we bumped the possible number of CPUs to 256 at
> least for the 64bit kernel. And that resulted in failed accesses to /proc/stat
> when memory became fragmented.
> So the first patch will avoid this on most systems. I have not seen this myself,
> but I would expect him to be happy with 1/2 already. For really excessive
> hardware 2/2 will close the gap.
> Since this is no critical bug, I am fine with 3.17, too. I have not done so,
> yet, but I could let our reporter try the patches (again, probably not verifying
> the second part). Just waited to do so to see whether the code settles down to
> these changes.
> 

Ok, thanks.  Looks like

proc-stat-convert-to-single_open_size.patch
fs-seq_file-fallback-to-vmalloc-allocation.patch

are destined for 3.17.
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