| Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/25] NTFS: Allow highmem kmalloc() in ntfs_malloc_nofs() and add _nofail() version. | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:51:23 -0700 |
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Anton> fs/ntfs/malloc.h::ntfs_malloc_nofs() to do the kmalloc() Anton> based allocations with __GFP_HIGHMEM, analogous to how the Anton> vmalloc() based allocations are done.
Does it make sense to pass __GFP_HIGHMEM to kmalloc()? kmalloc() has to return memory from lowmem, since it gives you an address from the direct-mapped kernel area, so at best kmalloc() ignores this flag.
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