Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:14:58 +1100 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: 2.6 /proc/interrupts fails on systems with many CPUs |
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> 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; }
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