On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
So 3.16 was by far the largest increase, almost 10x bigger than the 3.19 increase, but others are quite big as well.
Do you know what happened in 3.16?
It was commit 1413c03893332366e5b4d1e26f942ada25f3e82a ("lockdep: Increase static allocations").
- Paul
commit 1413c03893332366e5b4d1e26f942ada25f3e82a Author: Sasha Levin sasha.levin@oracle.com Date: Wed Jan 8 14:21:46 2014 -0500
lockdep: Increase static allocations
Fuzzing a recent kernel with a large configuration hits the static allocation limits and disables lockdep.
This patch doubles the limits.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sasha.levin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389208906-24338-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracl... Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org