Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 07:55:32 EST


On Tuesday 26 August 2008 06:43:03 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So now load_module() will still use almost 500 bytes of stack

Hmm, wants neatening anyway; I'll see if I can reduce stack usage side effect.

Your workaround is very random, and that scares me. I think a huge number of
CPUs needs a real solution (an actual cpumask allocator, then do something
clever if we come across an actual fastpath).

Thanks,
Rusty.
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