linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: mark all calls into the vmalloc subsystem as potentially sleeping

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Message-ID: <20161018103359.GM29072@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:33:59 +0100
From:   Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, joelaf@...gle.com, jszhang@...vell.com,
        joaodias@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: mark all calls into the vmalloc subsystem as
 potentially sleeping

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:56:07AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This is how everyone seems to already use them, but let's make that
> explicit.

mm/page_alloc.c: alloc_large_system_hash() is perhaps the exception to
the rule.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre