Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] mm/vmalloc: cleanup gfp flag use in new_vmap_block()

[Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 11:04:29AM -0800, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> The only caller, vb_alloc(), passes GFP_KERNEL into new_vmap_block()
> which is a subset of GFP_RECLAIM_MASK. Since there's no reason to use
> this mask here, remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index ced77fc65ce3..e6cca6219e48 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -2699,8 +2699,7 @@ static void *new_vmap_block(unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  
>  	node = numa_node_id();
>  
> -	vb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_block),
> -			gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK, node);
> +	vb = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct vmap_block), gfp_mask, node);
>  	if (unlikely(!vb))
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
> -- 
> 2.51.1
> 
LGTM:

Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>

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