On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 05:52:28PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 01:45:46PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:

quoted

I agree that allocating from a kmem_cache isn't ideal for safety. It's a
compromise to reduce memory overhead.

Do you think it would be a problem if we always allocated a page for the
SCS?

Yes, the memory overhead was deemed too large for Android devices, which
have thousands of threads running.

Sami

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