Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:17:27 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo |
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:11:57AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time > allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory. > The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block > indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up.
This is dead wrong. NFI wtf I was thinking. Ignore that one.
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