linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmsg: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc when writing

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Message-Id: <201203302105.52987.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:05:52 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	davej@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmsg: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc when writing

On Friday 30 March 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> I think so. This is an interface to inject stuff into dmesg. Limiting
> that to a reasonable size makes sense. We can probably limit it to
> something small like 1024, but I don't know about the "ideas" of those
> folks who think that it's a great idea to do it at all.

I guess a page would be a reasonable size, similar to what we do for
sysfs. 

	Arnd
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