linux-kernel - Re: Regression from 2.6.36

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Message-ID: <1302190586.3357.45.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:36:26 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Regression from 2.6.36

Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 à 23:27 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :

> azurlt, would you please test the patch attached? Thanks.
> 

Yes of course, I meant to reverse the patch

(use kmalloc() under PAGE_SIZE, vmalloc() for 'big' allocs)


Dont fallback to vmalloc if kmalloc() fails.


if (size <= PAGE_SIZE)
	return kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
else
	return vmalloc(size);



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