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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:08:45 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org Subject: Re: [RFC] propagate gfp_t to page table alloc functions On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:24:32 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote: > I was about to add warning in __vmalloc internal if caller uses GFP_NOIO, GFP_NOFS, GFP_ATOMIC > with Nick's comment and let them make to fix it. But it seems Andrew doesn't agree. I do, actually. > Andrew, please tell me your opinion for fixing this problem. Only call vmalloc() from GFP_KERNEL contexts. Go ahead, add the WARN_ONCE() and let's see what happens. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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