linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations

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Message-ID: <8b02744c-d527-f000-78c0-90142052b4ae@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 9 Feb 2018 09:15:00 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...wei.com>, jglisse@...hat.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, mhocko@...nel.org, labbott@...hat.com,
        hch@...radead.org, willy@...radead.org
Cc:     cl@...ux.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations

On 02/09/2018 08:18 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/02/18 00:34, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 02/04/2018 08:47 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> It would be good for a lot of this to be in a source file or the
>> pmalloc.rst documentation file instead of living only in the git repository.
> 
> This is actually about genalloc. The genalloc documentation is high
> level and mostly about the API, while this talks about the guts of the
> library. The part modified by the patch. This text doesn't seem to
> belong to the generic genalloc documentation.
> I will move it to the .c file, but isn't it too much text in a source file?

No, that will be fine.

thanks,
-- 
~Randy