Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: add generic adaptive large memory allocation APIs

[Changli Gao]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 22:08 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
>> > NAK, I really utterly dislike that inatomic argument. The alloc side
>> > doesn't function in atomic context either. Please keep the thing
>> > symmetric in that regards.
>> >
>>
>> There are some users, who release memory in atomic context. for
>> example: fs/file.c: fdmem.
>
> urgh, but yeah, aside from not using vmalloc to allocate fd tables one
> needs to deal with this.
>
> But if that is the only one, I'd let them do the workqueue thing that's
> already there. If there really are more people wanting to do this, then
> maybe add: kvfree_atomic().
>

Tetsuo has pointed another one in apparmor.
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=jj/ubuntu-lucid.git;a=blobdiff;f=security/apparmor/match.c;h=d2cd55419acfcae85cb748c8f837a4384a3a0d29;hp=afc2dd2260edffcf88521ae86458ad03aa8ea12c;hb=f5eba4b0a01cc671affa429ba1512b6de7caeb5b;hpb=abdff9ddaf2644d0f9962490f73e030806ba90d3
, though apparmor hasn't been merged into mainline.

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Regardsï
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx)
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