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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: add warning in __vmalloc
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well.  What are we actually doing here?  Causing the kernel to spew a
> warning due to known-buggy callsites, so that users will report the
> warnings, eventually goading maintainers into fixing their stuff.
>=20
> This isn't very efficient :(

I'll look at UBIFS and UBI - they use vmalloc and probably some of them
may be in write-back paths.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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