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Message-ID: <4a016e0876fd4e54ae77763be3667209@EXCHCS32.ornl.gov>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jan 2016 20:54:16 +0000
From:	"Simmons, James A." <simmonsja@...l.gov>
To:	'Niranjan Dighe' <niranjan.dighe@...il.com>,
	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>
CC:	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"Patrick Boettcher" <patrick.boettcher@...teo.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	"Mike Rapoport" <mike.rapoport@...il.com>,
	Matthew Tyler <matt.tyler@...shics.com>,
	"lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: RE: [lustre-devel] [PATCH] staging: lustre/lustre/libcfs: Fix type
 mismatch reported by sparse

>>>2. Is it OK to hardcode the appropriate gfp_t flags for the
>>>IOC_LIBCFS_MEMHOG, as the userspace
>>>seems to be taking the decision about the page allocation
>>>zone/strategy, is this what is intended?
>>
>> The memhog functionality is used to introduce memory pressure on a client
>> or server during operation to test error handling as well as memory
>> allocation deadlocks (e.g. GFP_KERNEL used where GFP_NOFS should be used).
>> There are other ways to do this in the kernel today, so all of the memhog
>> code could just be deleted I think.
>>
>> This looks like kportal_memhog_alloc(), kportal_memhog_free(),
>> IOC_LIBCFS_MEMHOG, and struct libcfs_device_userstate could be removed.
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Andreas
>>
>Thanks Andreas, I will send out a separate patch with the cleanup as
>you suggested.

I missed this email. I just sent the cleanup patches a bit ago.
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