[dm-devel] [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka at redhat.com
Thu Apr 19 16:28:41 UTC 2018



On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 
> 
> On 04/19/2018 09:12 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > These bugs are hard to reproduce because vmalloc falls back to kmalloc
> > only if memory is fragmented.
> > 
> 
> This sentence is wrong.
> 
> .... because kvmalloc() falls back to vmalloc() ...

Yes. There should be "falls back to vmalloc()".

Mikulas




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