From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:17:27 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] add vmalloc stats to meminfo Message-ID: <20020915071727.GI3530@holomorphy.com> References: <3D8422BB.5070104@us.ibm.com> <3D84340A.25ED4C69@digeo.com> <20020915071157.GH3530@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020915071157.GH3530@holomorphy.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , Dave Hansen , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 12:11:57AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Also, dynamic vmalloc allocations may very well be starved by boot-time > allocations on systems where much vmallocspace is required for IO memory. > The failure mode of such is effectively deadlock, since they block > indefinitely waiting for permanent boot-time allocations to be freed up. This is dead wrong. NFI wtf I was thinking. Ignore that one. Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/