From: Corinna Vinschen <vinsc...@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:29:49 +0200

> Still wondering though.  Given that the driver never failed before if
> the counter values couldn't be updated, and given that these counter
> values only have statistical relevance, why should this suddenly result
> in a fatal failure at open time?

Failing to allocate such a small buffer means we have much deeper issues
at hand.  A GFP_KERNEL allocation of this size really should not fail.
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