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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:29:55 -0600
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
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On Tue 24-04-18 10:12:42, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 24-04-18 11:30:40, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon 23-04-18 20:25:15, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Fixing __vmalloc code 
> > > > is easy and it doesn't require cooperation with maintainers.
> > > 
> > > But it is a hack against the intention of the scope api.
> > 
> > It is not!
> 
> This discussion simply doesn't make much sense it seems. The scope API
> is to document the scope of the reclaim recursion critical section. That
> certainly is not a utility function like vmalloc.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180424162712.GL17484@dhcp22.suse.cz

let's see how it rolls this time.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs