| To: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 03/10] xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_attrmulti_attr_get |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:27:31 -0400 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <1331095828-28742-4-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| References: | <1331095828-28742-1-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <1331095828-28742-4-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:50:21PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > xfsdump uses for a large buffer for extended attributes, which has a > kmalloc'd shadow buffer in the kernel. This can fail after the > system has been running for some time as it is a high order > allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it doesn't require > contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail while xfsdump is > running. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> |
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