Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.67-mm2 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 13 Apr 2003 16:54:49 +0200 |
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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..... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |