Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:49:39 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/6] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large | From | Benjamin Blum <> |
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Li Zefan<lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote: > Ben Blum wrote: >> Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large >> >> Separates all pidlist allocation requests to a separate function that judges >> based on the requested size whether or not the array needs to be vmalloced or >> can be gotten via kmalloc, and similar for kfree/vfree. Should be replaced >> entirely with a kernel-wide solution to this general problem. >> >> Depends on cgroup-pidlist-namespace.patch, cgroup-procs.patch >> >> Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> >> > > We'll either use flex_array or implement Paul's proposal, so I think > we can drop this patch? > >
Depending how long they'll take, yes. This is meant to be an intermediate correctness patch.
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