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

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

>> 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;
> }

That seems particularly .... odd ... as PAGE_SIZE isn't anywhere near the
breakpoint. Worst case (and I know I'll get yelled at for this, but I'll
get another amusing analogy out of Linus ;-)) we should just call kmalloc
and if it fails, then try vmalloc ...

M.