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

[Chaskiel M Grundman]

--On Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:19:31 AM -0400 chas williams - CONTRACTOR 
<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

> which is why we should not be using kmalloc() to allocate huge chunks
> of memory in the first place.

we don't. kmalloc is only used for allocations <= MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE (== 
PAGE_SIZE)

> ideally, afs would just use vmalloc for
> everything but early kernels dont have a vmalloc(GFP_NOFS).
doing this would waste vmalloc address space unnecessarily (it is more 
scarce than low memory on 32 bit x86).