linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 04/24] rxrpc: Avoid using stack memory in SG lists in rxkad

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2016 06:19:05 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 04/24] rxrpc: Avoid using stack memory in SG
 lists in rxkad

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:12 AM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>
> rxkad uses stack memory in SG lists which would not work if stacks were
> allocated from vmalloc memory.  In fact, in most cases this isn't even
> necessary as the stack memory ends up getting copied over to kmalloc
> memory.

This version no longer applies to Linus' tree, so I'm dropping it from
my series.