From: Benjamin Blum <bblum@google.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
serue@us.ibm.com, menage@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:49:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2f86c2480907270849x65af933fnc58d3cb243649b1f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6D37A4.6020605@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Li Zefan<lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Ben Blum wrote:
>> Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large
>>
>> Separates all pidlist allocation requests to a separate function that judges
>> based on the requested size whether or not the array needs to be vmalloced or
>> can be gotten via kmalloc, and similar for kfree/vfree. Should be replaced
>> entirely with a kernel-wide solution to this general problem.
>>
>> Depends on cgroup-pidlist-namespace.patch, cgroup-procs.patch
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
>>
>
> We'll either use flex_array or implement Paul's proposal, so I think
> we can drop this patch?
>
>
Depending how long they'll take, yes. This is meant to be an
intermediate correctness patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-27 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 3:21 [PATCH 0/6] CGroups: cgroup memberlist enhancement+fix Ben Blum
2009-07-24 3:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] Adds a read-only "procs" file similar to "tasks" that shows only unique tgids Ben Blum
2009-07-24 3:21 ` [PATCH 2/6] Ensures correct concurrent opening/reading of pidlists across pid namespaces Ben Blum
2009-07-24 3:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large Ben Blum
2009-07-27 5:14 ` Li Zefan
2009-07-27 15:49 ` Benjamin Blum [this message]
2009-07-24 3:21 ` [PATCH 4/6] Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU Ben Blum
2009-07-24 3:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] Makes procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once Ben Blum
2009-07-24 10:02 ` Louis Rilling
2009-07-24 10:08 ` Louis Rilling
2009-07-24 19:05 ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-24 21:52 ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-24 21:57 ` Paul Menage
2009-08-03 10:52 ` Louis Rilling
2009-07-29 0:23 ` Benjamin Blum
2009-08-03 11:00 ` Louis Rilling
2009-07-24 15:50 ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-24 16:01 ` Paul Menage
2009-07-24 17:23 ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-24 17:47 ` Paul Menage
2009-07-24 20:53 ` Benjamin Blum
2009-07-24 21:06 ` Matt Helsley
2009-07-24 21:36 ` Paul Menage
2009-11-09 17:07 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-11-10 1:29 ` Li Zefan
2009-11-10 10:26 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-11-11 2:07 ` Li Zefan
2009-11-11 20:06 ` Daniel Lezcano
2009-07-24 3:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] Lets ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time Ben Blum
2009-07-31 1:51 [PATCH v2 0/6] CGroups: cgroup memberlist enhancement+fix Ben Blum
2009-07-31 1:51 ` [PATCH 3/6] Quick vmalloc vs kmalloc fix to the case where array size is too large Ben Blum
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