On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:06:05PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Horms <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:57:46 +0900
>
> > I feel like I mist be dreaming, but this patch, which was inlcuded
> > in Linus' tree as 40c07ae8daa659b8feb149c84731629386873c16 calls
> > __you_cannot_kzalloc_that_much(), but that does not seem to exist.
> >
> > On i386 at least that causes a build failure
>
> It's a purposeful build time error introduced so that invalid calls
> that specify too large kzalloc() length arguments are caught at build
> time.
Thanks, I knew that I had to be missing the point somewhere.
I'll focus my attention on the caller.
--
Horms
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