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Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 03:12:31 +0000 From: "Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com> To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>, "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>, "HPDD-discuss@...ts.01.org" <HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org>, "Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@...l.gov> Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree Hello! On May 2, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:13:11PM +0000, Drokin, Oleg wrote: >>>> The patch was submitted. >>>> But it depends on a symbol that's not exported. >>>> I was not able to change that. >>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg83997.html >>> >>> But you were given a hint on how to change that :) >> >> Well, the hint amounted to "don't do vmalloc if you cannot live with the >> GFP_KERNEL" allocations. >> > > Which email is that? Ah, my memory is playing tricks, it appears. There was just a pointer to the "other discussions" where this advice was given it appears. > I only see where David says to implement vmalloc_node_gfp() and the talk > was about if that makes sense from a style perspective and then dies. > > Anyway, this only seems to affect ptlrpc_alloc_rqbd() since I think > that's the only place which calls OBD_CPT_ALLOC_PTR(). The rest can use > __vmalloc(). I guess so. Bye, Oleg-- 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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