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Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> writes: > Jeff, > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 06:37:29PM +0000, Jeff Sipek wrote: > > Allocates kprobe_table at runtime. > > - /* FIXME allocate the probe table, currently defined statically */ > > + kprobe_table = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hlist_head)*KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); > > Memory allocation using GFP_KERNEL has more chances of success as compared to > GFP_ATOMIC. Why can't we use GFP_KERNEL here? I don't see any sense in the change anyways. Just using BSS should be fine. Jeff, when you submit a patch you should add a small blurb describing why you think it is a good idea. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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