linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation (v2)

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Message-Id: <4ACCC12E020000780001882B@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:26:22 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc()
	 invocation  (v2)

>>> Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk> 07.10.09 15:55 >>>
>On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> - avoid wasting more precious resources (DMA or DMA32 pools), when
>>   being called through vmalloc_32{,_user}()
>> - explicitly allow using high memory here even if the outer allocation
>>   request doesn't allow it, unless is collides with __GFP_ZERO
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                            that's no longer an issue in the patch

Oops. Will send out a corrected version in a second.

Jan

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