linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation

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Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:20:36 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() 
	 invocation

>>> Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk> 07.10.09 14:08 >>>
>Well, now we've accepted that this code cannot be used in_interrupt(),
>there's no need for your #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM nor for my memset: just
>use __GFP_ZERO as it was before, and your patch would amount to or'ing
>__GFP_HIGHMEM into gfp_mask for the __vmalloc_node case - wouldn't it?

Plus the consolidation of masking the passed in gfp_mask by
GFP_RECLAIM_MASK also for the nested vmalloc() case, in particular to
remove the GFP_DMA* possibly coming in from vmalloc_32(). But yes,
it will become simpler.

Jan

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