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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:54:08 +0000
Subject: Re: LIBCFS_ALLOC
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To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@intel.com>, "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, "kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@intel.com>, "lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@lists.lustre.org>

Yeah.  You're right.  Doing a vmalloc() when kmalloc() doesn't have even
a tiny sliver of RAM isn't going to work.  It's easier to use
libcfs_kvzalloc() everywhere, but it's probably the wrong thing.

regards,
dan carpenter