Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free()

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Nov 17 2008 - 02:16:12 EST


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:13:01 -0800

> In fact it's not immediately clear why __vmalloc() takes a gfp_t
> argument either?

Probably for things like GFP_DMA32, GFP_HIGHMEM, et al.

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