From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: " (Walter Harms)" <WHarms@bfs.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/slab.c: linux 2.6.1 fix 2 unguarded kmalloc and a PAGE_SHIFT
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:16:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401407F7.5020102@colorfullife.com> (raw)
Hi Walter,
>this fixes catches 2 unguarded kmallocs() and changes a statement so that PAGE_SHIFT \
>>20 causes a warning. At least sparc64 is prepared for a PAGE_SHIFT >20.
>
>
Why should a page shift above 20 generate a warning?
The two unguarded kmallocs are obivously wrong, but I'd prefer to guard
them with __GFP_NOFAIL.
--
Manfred
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2004-01-25 18:16 Manfred Spraul [this message]
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2004-01-25 14:02 Walter Harms
2004-01-25 18:11 ` Brian Gerst
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