linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] percpu: allow select gfp to be passed to underlying allocators

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Date:   Sun, 18 Feb 2018 05:33:28 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] percpu: allow select gfp to be passed to
 underlying allocators

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:09:58PM -0600, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> The prior patch added support for passing gfp flags through to the
> underlying allocators. This patch allows users to pass along gfp flags
> (currently only __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN) to the underlying
> allocators. This should allow users to decide if they are ok with
> failing allocations recovering in a more graceful way.
> 
> Additionally, gfp passing was done as additional flags in the previous
> patch. Instead, change this to caller passed semantics. GFP_KERNEL is
> also removed as the default flag. It continues to be used for internally
> caused underlying percpu allocations.
> 
> V2:
> Removed gfp_percpu_mask in favor of doing it inline.
> Removed GFP_KERNEL as a default flag for __alloc_percpu_gfp.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>
> Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Applied 1-3 to percpu/for-4.16-fixes.

Thanks, Dennis.

-- 
tejun