From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm2
Date: 13 Apr 2003 16:54:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1050245689.1422.11.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030413151232.D672@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
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On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:12, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> hi lists readers,
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:08:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +gfp_repeat.patch
> >
> > Implement __GFP_REPEAT: so we can consolidate lots of alloc-with-retry code.
>
> What about reworking the semantics of kmalloc()?
>
> Many users of kmalloc get the flags and size reversed (major
> source of hard to find bugs), so wouldn't it be simpler to have:
that in itself is easy to find btw; just give every GFP_* an extra
__GFP_REQUIRED bit and then check inside kmalloc for that bit (MSB?) to
be set.....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-13 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-13 1:08 2.5.67-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-13 1:55 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-04-13 3:03 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Jeremy Hall
2003-04-13 3:10 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-13 3:54 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Jeremy Hall
2003-04-13 4:22 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Jeremy Hall
2003-04-13 4:32 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-13 3:14 ` 2.5.67-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-13 3:50 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Jeremy Hall
2003-04-13 4:42 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-13 3:17 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-13 11:15 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-04-13 8:11 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Russell King
2003-04-13 13:12 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Ingo Oeser
2003-04-13 14:54 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-04-14 6:24 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Denis Vlasenko
2003-04-14 8:49 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-14 17:48 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Joel Becker
2003-04-14 21:31 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Andrew Morton
2003-04-14 21:34 ` 2.5.67-mm2 Randy.Dunlap
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