[PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check

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As davem points out, this wasn't such a great idea.  There may be some code
which does:

	size = 1024*1024;
	while (kmalloc(size, ...) == 0)
		size /= 2;

which will now explode.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Andrew Morton 2005-09-23 13:24:10 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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