Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_owner: use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc
From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 06:27:38 EST
On Thu 01-11-18 18:00:12, Miles Chen wrote:
[...]
> I did a test today, the only code changed is to clamp to read count to
> PAGE_SIZE and it worked well. Maybe we can solve this issue by just
> clamping the read count.
>
> count = count > PAGE_SIZE ? PAGE_SIZE : count;
This i what Matthew was proposing AFAIR. At least as a stop gap
solution. Maybe we want to extend this to a more standard implementation
later on (e.g. seq_file).
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs