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

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Message-Id: <20081116.231555.190117597.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:15:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: introduce simple_malloc()/simple_free()

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:13:01 -0800

> In fact it's not immediately clear why __vmalloc() takes a gfp_t
> argument either?

Probably for things like GFP_DMA32, GFP_HIGHMEM, et al.

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