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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] IB/ehca: Replace vmalloc with kmalloc
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 > +	queue->queue_pages = kmalloc(nr_of_pages * sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);

How big might this buffer be?  Any chance of allocation failure due to
memory fragmentation?

 - R.