On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:04:50 +0200 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> These two patches are supposed to "fix" failed order-4 memory > allocations which have been observed when reading /proc/stat. > The problem has been observed on s390 as well as on x86. > > To address the problem change the seq_file memory allocations to > fallback to use vmalloc, so that allocations also work if memory > is fragmented. > > This approach seems to be simpler and less intrusive than changing > /proc/stat to use an interator. Also it "fixes" other users as well, > which use seq_file's single_open() interface. Yes, those changes look pretty simple and effective. I'm unclear on how urgent these fixes are. I semi-randomly tagged them for 3.16 with a -stable backport, but that could be changed? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
