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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:54:08 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	"lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: LIBCFS_ALLOC

Yeah.  You're right.  Doing a vmalloc() when kmalloc() doesn't have even
a tiny sliver of RAM isn't going to work.  It's easier to use
libcfs_kvzalloc() everywhere, but it's probably the wrong thing.

regards,
dan carpenter

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