linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple

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Message-ID: <2f11576a0811162243r7527d271ya8ab2fc3a9be9f7d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:43:59 +0900
From:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, "Lai Jiangshan" <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	menage@...gle.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com, jack@...e.cz,
	jes@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dada1@...mosbay.com,
	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free()

>> > (I'll rename simple_malloc/simple_free to kvmalloc/kvfree)
>> >
>>
>> I would prefer to find a way to say that one cannot select gfp_mask with this API.
>>
> I think gfp_mask must be passed explicitly.

Agreed.
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