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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1203302318100.2542@ionos>
Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:18:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.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 Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 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. 

Fine with me.
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