[PATCH]fs/jffs2/wbuf.c: add compatibility support for OOB data block
Ferenc Havasi
havasi at inf.u-szeged.hu
Mon Aug 15 09:34:09 EDT 2005
Jörn Engel wrote:
>Yes. The cumulation of erase blocks is an ugly ugly hack. The fact
>that vmalloc() of more than 128M will always fail doesn't imply that
>vmalloc() of less will always succeed. On i386 with 1GiB of ram and a
>single kernel module loaded, the chance has already dropped to 0.
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I agree.
But If I am right we use kmalloc, and its limit is 128K. Why don't we
use vmalloc() instead there?
Ferenc
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