linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] debugobjects: Allow bigger number of objects

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:37:59 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] debugobjects: Allow bigger number of objects

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> On 01/26/2016 09:22 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > 
> >> On my bigger s390 systems  I always get
> >> "Out of memory. ODEBUG disabled". Since the number of objects
> >> is needed at compile time in the code, let's provide a Kconfig
> >> variable to increase the number of static objects.
> > 
> > How many do you need on those big machines? Can't we scale that automagically
> > with the number of cpus or such?
> 
> It seems to be 530 - actually pretty close.
> Hmm, we could simply increase that to 1000, it is initdata anyway?

Yes, it's initdata, so it doesn't matter much.

Thanks,

	tglx