Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: add warning in __vmalloc

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Thu May 03 2012 - 01:55:56 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well. What are we actually doing here? Causing the kernel to spew a
> warning due to known-buggy callsites, so that users will report the
> warnings, eventually goading maintainers into fixing their stuff.
>
> This isn't very efficient :(

I'll look at UBIFS and UBI - they use vmalloc and probably some of them
may be in write-back paths.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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