On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 17:06 +0100, David Laight wrote: > Given the number of places I've seen this code added, why > not put it in a general helper?
Good luck with that. We had many attempts in the past. > I also thought that malloc() with GFP_KERNEL would sleep. > Under what conditions does it fail instead? For example on 32 bit kernel, LOW memory exhaustion/fragmentation. vmalloc() has an extra 128MB virtual space (on i386 at least with standard 3G/1G split) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
