Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] kvmalloc

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 26-01-17 04:14:37, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 11:32 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > So I have folded the following to the patch 1. It is in line with
> > kvmalloc and hopefully at least tell more than the current code.
> []
> > diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> []
> > @@ -1741,6 +1741,13 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
> >   *	Allocate enough pages to cover @size from the page level
> >   *	allocator with @gfp_mask flags.  Map them into contiguous
> >   *	kernel virtual space, using a pagetable protection of @prot.
> > + *
> > + *	Reclaim modifiers in @gfp_mask - __GFP_NORETRY, __GFP_REPEAT
> > + *	and __GFP_NOFAIL are not supported
> 
> Maybe add a BUILD_BUG or a WARN_ON_ONCE to catch new occurrences?

I would really like to not touch vmalloc in this series.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs