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SubjectRe: 2.6 /proc/interrupts fails on systems with many CPUs

> 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
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