From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation (v2)
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:26:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACCC12E020000780001882B@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910071451090.4695@sister.anvils>
>>> Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> 07.10.09 15:55 >>>
>On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> - avoid wasting more precious resources (DMA or DMA32 pools), when
>> being called through vmalloc_32{,_user}()
>> - explicitly allow using high memory here even if the outer allocation
>> request doesn't allow it, unless is collides with __GFP_ZERO
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that's no longer an issue in the patch
Oops. Will send out a corrected version in a second.
Jan
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 12:45 Jan Beulich
2009-10-07 13:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-07 14:26 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
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