Re: 2.6 /proc/interrupts fails on systems with many CPUs

[Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>]

 
> There are basically no valid new uses of it. There's a few valid legacy
> users (I think the file descriptor array), and there are some drivers that
> use it (which is crap, but drivers are drivers), and it's _really_ valid
> only for modules. Nothing else.

The IPC code is doing ugly things too:

void* ipc_alloc(int size)
{
        void* out;
        if(size > PAGE_SIZE)
                out = vmalloc(size);
        else
                out = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
        return out;
}

Anton