[PATCH net-next 04/24] rxrpc: Avoid using stack memory in SG lists in rxkad

Andy Lutomirski luto at amacapital.net
Wed Jul 6 06:19:05 PDT 2016


On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:12 AM, David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
>
> rxkad uses stack memory in SG lists which would not work if stacks were
> allocated from vmalloc memory.  In fact, in most cases this isn't even
> necessary as the stack memory ends up getting copied over to kmalloc
> memory.

This version no longer applies to Linus' tree, so I'm dropping it from
my series.



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