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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERO to GFP_LEVEL_MASK
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:12:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070724161247.ee1a2546.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707241541310.7288@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > I think I'll duck this for now.  Otherwise I have a suspicion that I'll
> > be the first person to run it and I'm too old for such excitement.
> 
> I always had the suspicion that you have some magical script 
> which will immediately tell you that a patch is not working ;-)

sort of a defensive crouch.

> Works fine on x86_64 (on top of the ctor cleanup patchset) and passes the 
> kernel build test but then there may be creatively designed drivers and 
> such that pass these flags to the slab allocators which will now BUG.

__GFP_COLD looks OK.

__GFP_COMP I'm not so sure about. 
drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.c:drm_pci_alloc() (and other places like infiniband)
pass it into dma_alloc_coherent() which some architectures implement via slab.  umm,
arch/arm/mm/consistent.c is one such.

__GFP_MOVABLE looks OK.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-24 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23 10:03 [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP " Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-23 11:21 ` Mel Gorman
2007-07-23 11:38   ` [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERO " Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-23 12:30     ` Mel Gorman
2007-07-23 23:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24  6:01       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-24  6:48         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-24  7:14           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24  7:09         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24  7:24           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-24  7:35             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24 19:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24 19:25                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 19:36                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24 22:10                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-24 23:00                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-24 23:12                         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-24 23:58                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-25  0:06                             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-25 13:06                   ` Mel Gorman
2007-07-23 18:37 ` [PATCH] add __GFP_ZERP " Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 18:40   ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-23 21:43     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-23 22:13       ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 22:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-23 22:56           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 23:00             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-23 22:50         ` Christoph Lameter

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