Oh - one more thing - and my apologies for not spotting this before: dst = allocate_buf_for_compression(big_buf_sz);
No - you may not call kmalloc() in oops/panic context. Please pre-allocate everything you need in some initialization code to make sure that we don't fail in the panic path because we can't get the memory we need. -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/