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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Why does xfsdump encounter "WARNING: could not get list of
	non-root attributes for nondir ino nnnn: Cannot allocate memory (12)"?
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:03:16PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Sounds like a generic kvmalloc()/kvfree() call pair is the answer
> then. i.e. if kmalloc fails, then use vmalloc()...

If my memory serves me right that's been discussed and rejected a few
times before.

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