From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, akpm@zip.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: proc_misc.c bug
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:49:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030410154902.32f48f9c.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050011057.12930.134.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On 10 Apr 2003 22:44:17 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
| On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:02, David Mosberger wrote:
| > The workaround below is to allocate 4KB per 8 CPUs. Not really a
| > solution, but the fundamental problem is that /proc/interrupts
| > shouldn't use a fixed buffer size in the first place. I suppose
| > another solution would be to use vmalloc() instead. It all feels like
| > bandaids though.
|
| How about switching to Al's seqfile interface ?
It's already using it, but it uses the simple/single version of it,
which doesn't automagically extend the output buffer area when
it's full, so a max size buffer has to be allocated for it
up front.
I'll look at changing it unless somebody beats me (to it :).
--
~Randy ['tangent' is not a verb...unless you believe that
"in English any noun can be verbed."]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-10 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 22:02 David Mosberger
2003-04-10 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-10 22:49 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-04-11 5:01 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11 5:28 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-11 5:41 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-11 5:46 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-11 17:29 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-11 18:32 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-10 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-11 0:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-10 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
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