From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm2 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20030413151232.D672@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <20030412180852.77b6c5e8.akpm@digeo.com> <20030413151232.D672@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-RIlFG6ONcUo8zNug1Y3Z" Message-Id: <1050245689.1422.11.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 13 Apr 2003 16:54:49 +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Oeser Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: --=-RIlFG6ONcUo8zNug1Y3Z Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 15:12, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Andrew, > hi lists readers, >=20 > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 06:08:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +gfp_repeat.patch > >=20 > > Implement __GFP_REPEAT: so we can consolidate lots of alloc-with-retry= code. >=20 > What about reworking the semantics of kmalloc()? >=20 > 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..... --=-RIlFG6ONcUo8zNug1Y3Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+mXo5xULwo51rQBIRAo9GAKCgDFFIXqa8x6RDNkwxm3awj9WpjgCffJbG /DfJRIqObd1wzlktC0xxz8k= =DBbY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-RIlFG6ONcUo8zNug1Y3Z-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org