linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or suspending

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Message-ID: <84144f020906120224v5ef44637pb849fd247eab84ea@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:24:55 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] slab,slub: ignore __GFP_WAIT if we're booting or 
	suspending

Hi Ben,

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin
Herrenschmidt<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> I really think we are looking for trouble (and a lot of hidden bugs) by
> trying to "fix" all callers, in addition to making some code like
> vmalloc() more failure prone because it's unconditionally changed from
> GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOWAIT.

It's a new API function vmalloc_node_boot() that uses GFP_NOWAIT so I
don't share your concern that it's error prone.

                                              Pekka
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