Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: teach mm by current context info to not doI/O during memory allocation

[Ming Lei]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Instead of allow/forbid, the API should be save/restore (like
> local_irq_save and local_irq_restore).  This makes nesting much easier.

Good point.

> Also, do we really the "p" argument?  This is not at all likely to be
> used with any task other than the current one.

Yes, only 'current' can be passed now. I keep it because no performance
effect with macro implementation. But that is not good since it may
cause misuse. Will remove the 'p' argument.

Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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