linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801072122550.28636@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:23:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
cc:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	bunk@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> sounds like a bad idea; a compile time failure is of course nicer than
> a runtime failure for the cases we can find the bug at compile-time already.
> 

There is not much chance of a runtime failure these days since kmalloc now 
supports up to 4MB allocs.
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