Re: [PATCH] kmsg: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc when writing

Joe Perches
2012-03-31T01:43:19Z

On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 21:05 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2012, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I think so. This is an interface to inject stuff into dmesg. Limiting
> > that to a reasonable size makes sense. We can probably limit it to
> > something small like 1024, but I don't know about the "ideas" of those
> > folks who think that it's a great idea to do it at all.

Per line dmesg output is limited to 1024 anyway.