Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:23:28 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Replace kmalloc with vmalloc in seq_files |
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:57:06PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote: > seq_files are often used for debugging data. When the system is under > memory pressure, and dumping debugging data starts trying to allocate > large physically contiguous buffers, it often makes the problem worse.
Please fix the instances that you see issues with by using the full seq_file interface which was designed for his instead of the simplified "single" interface that is only designed for small amounts of data.
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