Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263717AbTKKUTH (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:19:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263726AbTKKUTG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:19:06 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:50666 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263717AbTKKUS7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:18:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:14:58 +1100 From: Anton Blanchard To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Erik Jacobson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6 /proc/interrupts fails on systems with many CPUs Message-ID: <20031111201458.GS930@krispykreme> References: <9710000.1068573723@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 24 > There are basically no valid new uses of it. There's a few valid legacy > users (I think the file descriptor array), and there are some drivers that > use it (which is crap, but drivers are drivers), and it's _really_ valid > only for modules. Nothing else. The IPC code is doing ugly things too: void* ipc_alloc(int size) { void* out; if(size > PAGE_SIZE) out = vmalloc(size); else out = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); return out; } Anton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/