On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the patch below, what are the "real world use cases" that would
> cause this to be needed in the stable kernel trees?  Is there an
> in-kernel module that is affected by this limitation?

There are no in-kernel modules which are affected, the "real world"
scenario is debug modules generated by Ksplice.

> Also, when was "a while ago" exactly?

Uncertain, but according to my tests for this patch vmalloc is fine
with allocating large blocks on a 2.6.18 kernel.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks.
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