Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 5 authors, 2020-03-10

Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc

From: Shakeel Butt <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-10 19:40:14
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Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM Daniel Xu [off-list ref] wrote:
It's not really necessary to have contiguous physical memory for xattr
values. We no longer need to worry about higher order allocations
failing with kvmalloc, especially because the xattr size limit is at
64K.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <redacted>
The patch looks fine to me. However the commit message is too cryptic
i.e. hard to get the motivation behind the change.
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