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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support
    On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 09:09:53PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    > By the way, I don't think that Rust necessarily has to conform to the
    > current way that Linux works. If this prompted us to track the current
    > context (inside spinlock, handling interrupt, performing writeback, etc)
    > and do away with (some) GFP flags, that's not the end of the world.
    > We're already moving in that direction to a certain extent with the
    > scoped memory allocation APIs to replace GFP_NOFS / GFP_NOIO.

    I hadn't myself considered this option but it looks enticing to me. Do you have
    a sense of which GFP flags we wouldn't be able to obviate even if we did track
    state?

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