From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: proc_misc.c bug
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:53:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030410155303.007d5bfe.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050011057.12930.134.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
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! Not sure why it needs to buffer all the text in one
big slurp.
There are about 20 different show_interrupts()es which need updating if
someone decides to fix it for real.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-10 22:41 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
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 [this message]
2003-04-11 0:27 ` David Mosberger
2003-04-10 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
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