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DateThu, 30 Jun 2005 04:05:43 -0400 (EDT)
FromSteven Rostedt <>
SubjectRe: kmalloc without GFP_xxx?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

>
> Think about this:
>
> /* may be called under spinlock */
> void do_something() {
> 	/* we need to alloc here */
> }
>

Well thinking about this :-)  The way that this needs to be implemented is
by passing to do_something the flags to use in kmalloc, which is done in
the kernel when needing to call something that allocates when different
flags can be used. So a kmalloc_auto would only save on passing flags in
parameters, which can sometimes get annoying.

-- Steve

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