[OpenAFS-devel] [PATCH] fix openafs crashes on linux 2.6.10-2.6.12, and all RHEL4 kernels

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.61-042.0704181509251.1487@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Derr
ick J Brashear writes:
>The __vmalloc approach would be safer if we were even vaguely sure that it 
>was exported in enough cases.

i am still against the dual mode allocator.  osi_alloc() should have
a consistent behavior.  you either get memory via kmalloc or vmalloc.
yes, some of the allocations in afs are too large to handle via kmalloc().
perhaps we need an allocator like osi_AllocHugeSpace()?