Re: proc_misc.c bug

[Andrew Morton]

Alan Cox <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:02, David Mosberger wrote:
> > The workaround below is to allocate 4KB per 8 CPUs.  Not really a
> > solution, but the fundamental problem is that /proc/interrupts
> > shouldn't use a fixed buffer size in the first place.  I suppose
> > another solution would be to use vmalloc() instead.  It all feels like
> > bandaids though.
> 
> How about switching to Al's seqfile interface ?

It's already using it!  Not sure why it needs to buffer all the text in one
big slurp.

There are about 20 different show_interrupts()es which need updating if
someone decides to fix it for real.