Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755957AbYAHFX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:23:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751018AbYAHFXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:23:49 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:49478 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbYAHFXs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:23:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:23:44 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Kamalesh Babulal , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bunk@kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build-Failure at __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much In-Reply-To: <20080107202050.6926ae46@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Message-ID: References: <478200A4.4090707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080107100733.3655f74f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080107202050.6926ae46@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 549 Lines: 13 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > sounds like a bad idea; a compile time failure is of course nicer than > a runtime failure for the cases we can find the bug at compile-time already. > There is not much chance of a runtime failure these days since kmalloc now supports up to 4MB allocs. -- 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/