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

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Nov 17 2008 - 03:11:19 EST


2008/11/17 David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.

Thanks.

I think to __GFP_ZERO or __GFP_COLD etc..
but that also is right, imho.
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