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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:04:17 +0930 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Lucas Tanure <tanure@...ux.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NoMoreModuleVmalloc - Try alloc_pages_exact before vmalloc, if fails do vmalloc Lucas Tanure <tanure@...ux.com> writes: > Hi Russell, > > I found that project > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/NoMoreModuleVmalloc. > So I thought that doing first a alloc_pages_exact would be the goal. > The kernel/module.c doesn't need this task any more, or I just did in > the wrong way ? Hmm, that's hardly a newbie project! arch/x86/kernel/module.c contains the module_alloc() code for x86. You'd need to repalce that, and set module_free() too. And it's not entirely clear that replacing it with kmalloc is actually useful, since it will break CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX=y. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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