Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-29 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 03:25:20PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:32:52 -0700, Greg KH > wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:22:23AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Greg KH > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sa

Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:32:52 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:22:23AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > > >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH > > >> wrote:

Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:22:23AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH > >> wrote: > >> > For the patch below, what are the "real world use case

Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Sasha Levin
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH wrote: >> > For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would >> > cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees?  Is

Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:57:47AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would > > cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees?  Is there an > > in-kernel module that is affected by this

Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Sasha Levin
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH wrote: > For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would > cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees?  Is there an > in-kernel module that is affected by this limitation? There are no in-kernel modules which are affected, the

Re: Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Greg KH
For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees? Is there an in-kernel module that is affected by this limitation? Also, when was "a while ago" exactly? thanks, greg k-h On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:01:21PM -0400, Gregs git-

Patch Upstream: module: Remove module size limit

2012-03-28 Thread Gregs git-bot
commit: f946eeb9313ff1470758e171a60fe7438a2ded3f From: Sasha Levin Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:07:22 -0500 Subject: module: Remove module size limit Module size was limited to 64MB, this was legacy limitation due to vmalloc() which was removed a while ago. Limiting module size to 64MB is both poin