Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:24:55 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi Ben,
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > I really think we are looking for trouble (and a lot of hidden bugs) by > trying to "fix" all callers, in addition to making some code like > vmalloc() more failure prone because it's unconditionally changed from > GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOWAIT.
It's a new API function vmalloc_node_boot() that uses GFP_NOWAIT so I don't share your concern that it's error prone.
Pekka
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