relayfs: support larger relay buffer
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:03:46 +0000 (01:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:28 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
commit68ab3d883a2df13f4b93a923bae3a287cbee29d3
tree7886f6ecd3b7e7fb1359b89ab94a3871af63ede4
parent97a4feb4a78ae5cd130be7d546471a0779f1aa14
relayfs: support larger relay buffer

Use vmalloc() and memset() instead of kcalloc() to allocate a page* array when
the array size is bigger than one page.  This enables relayfs to support
bigger relay buffers than 64MB on 4k-page system, 512MB on 16k-page system.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/relay.c