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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] vhost: NULL vs ERR_PTR bug
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:41:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150715114106.GD5784@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A64574.1090907@bfs.de>

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:35:16PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> Is this function needed at all ?
> 

It tries to kmalloc() memory and if it can't then it tries to vmalloc()
it.  There are a bunch of these functions.  Eventually someone should
put one in a common header.

regards,
dan carpenter

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] vhost: NULL vs ERR_PTR bug
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:41:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150715114106.GD5784@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A64574.1090907@bfs.de>

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:35:16PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> Is this function needed at all ?
> 

It tries to kmalloc() memory and if it can't then it tries to vmalloc()
it.  There are a bunch of these functions.  Eventually someone should
put one in a common header.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-15 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-15 11:16 [patch] vhost: NULL vs ERR_PTR bug Dan Carpenter
2015-07-15 11:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-15 11:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 11:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 11:28   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 11:35   ` walter harms
2015-07-15 11:35   ` walter harms
2015-07-15 11:35     ` walter harms
2015-07-15 11:41     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-07-15 11:41       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-15 14:21     ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-15 14:21     ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-15 14:21       ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-15 14:40       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-15 14:40         ` Dan Carpenter

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