From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx122.postini.com [74.125.245.122]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22B3C6B004D for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 01:55:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lbjn8 with SMTP id n8so1423127lbj.14 for ; Wed, 02 May 2012 22:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1336024538.2056.1.camel@koala> Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: add warning in __vmalloc From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 08:55:38 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20120502124610.175e099c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1335932890-25294-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20120502124610.175e099c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, Neil Brown , David Woodhouse , Theodore Ts'o , Adrian Hunter , Steven Whitehouse , "David S. Miller" , James Morris , Alexander Viro , Sage Weil --=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well. What are we actually doing here? Causing the kernel to spew a > warning due to known-buggy callsites, so that users will report the > warnings, eventually goading maintainers into fixing their stuff. >=20 > This isn't very efficient :( I'll look at UBIFS and UBI - they use vmalloc and probably some of them may be in write-back paths. --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy --=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPoh3aAAoJECmIfjd9wqK0DugQAIW8EaTY4ZaVIylSG+FHCsTH HxRyp9vBXs1a0bl7K0qBLoJbUR0k6WuNGjJVX7hHGtYs3p9Q3CwzRoQrmJ4r377V KKW8d/oDuzCOEycIa9LJqPh5SEcdxRCL1gtaKJ3tFPclntUj9k7MC2if61GdXQuY fhfJIgCeZXu0e7oft8szQMJCi2tmt3QKeZ++KHToy86BHSR5uoG6Mbp+vYYppPhV pkQXK/UhHYsNBEj5Vz7mZx5fNcOpz9EeM6Z7Xo79xi3u+LEn0ugYOABrLfB5zMZG 3ckZEJvOE1egE2/QOv3wD/55VvPTDzD7zpsnMbNQIgUFYwix6G72WTn+ZDxV+4Kc CqiNpJ+4F9s4JVT+GvLS0tgLvJzcvA05x7TGzi7d/WyVsgWJsVVr4Ku4kHcCdWcS bpRFCk3PotHIqbugriW0GRd8hBw0sGtbNzol2ye2tqE2mvvkDXlUSnLKEL/42APE UheXtHFq6w6W4Vt+lNZbuW+JWH0/ga6cI/Zwn2BCwnM2LDpcx3LhAKeaM4vgzwHy ryk8/RlOqgHBOfd3snfaEzk/3v4VM2r3PYDxyV244dOXRO5p2qDBt/KVJ0/6UXb0 VEGX5JXelBnXr9tBU6SHPRDx1AyaNRx9vw2D8oEmYJ/fERyrbQQSUfjEc2WxEKlk 2ok7x2nrfnqnBjjf6OEC =UZEI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eNgnivd47g30r683VV7y-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org