Quoting Agustina Arzille (2016-03-15 15:44:13) > > Good catch. However, alloca is dangerous even if used correctly, and > > is best be avoided. Would you be so kind to prepare a patch to that > > end? > > > > Thanks, > > Justus > > Sure. I will cook up a patch when I get home. Right now, the > alternatives > to using alloca that I can think of are either: > 1) A global buffer with a fixed size, or > 2) 'kalloc' and friends. > > Obviously, (2) would be the preferred option, but I'm not sure if it's > completely available during bootstrap. What do you guys think?
The bootscript parser creates userspace tasks. At that point the kernel is fully initialized, feel free to use kalloc.
