Re: proc_misc.c bug

David Mosberger (davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:27:21 -0700


>>>>> On 10 Apr 2003 22:44:17 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:

Alan> 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.

Alan> How about switching to Al's seqfile interface ?

That's obviously the non-bandaid solution I was hinting at. Any volunteers?

--david
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