On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Maybe lets implement malloc(), free() and realloc() in the kernel to be > > consistent with user space use as possible? Only use the others > > allocation variants for special cases. > > They would need to drop the GFP part and default to GFP_KERNEL.
Yes, exactly. > > So malloc would check allocation sizes and if < 2* PAGE_SIZE use kmalloc() > > otherwise vmalloc(). > > Please no, I hate subtle internal decisions like this. It makes > debugging much more difficult, when allocating dynamic sized variables. > When something works at one size but not the other. You know we already have kvmalloc()?
