Re: %u-order allocation failed

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here goes the fix. (note that I didn't try to compile it so there may be
> bugs, but you see the point). 

It isnt a fix

> kmalloc should be fixed too (used badly for example in select.c - and yes
> - I have seen real world bugreports for poll randomly failing with
> ENOMEM), but it will be hard to audit all drivers that they do not try to
> use dma on kmallocated memory. 

So you run out of blocks of vmalloc address space instead. The same problem
still occurs and always will