On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:56:10 -0700 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David wrote: > > > That is, unless you can guarantee this type of problem will not happen > > > again > > > > Well, I certainly cannot guarantee that. > > The only place I can think of where the kernel will sit there allocating > huge amounts of memory like this is in readahead.
We just created one more, the execve string copy. However that uses get_user_pages(), so if that gets fixed we're save there too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
