From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([5.9.151.49]:54334 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932704AbdIFPFr (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2017 11:05:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1504710345.23905.14.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20170906_170613_695243_3BD2C7D9) Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/21] compat: avoid usage of kvzalloc() in rhashtable.c From: Johannes Berg To: Hauke Mehrtens Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:05:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170821222817.17376-13-hauke@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20170822_002849_246894_A23843F2) References: <20170821222817.17376-1-hauke@hauke-m.de> <20170821222817.17376-13-hauke@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20170822_002849_246894_A23843F2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 00:28 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > This reverts commit 12e8fd6fd3802 ("lib/rhashtable.c: use kvzalloc() > in > bucket_table_alloc() when possible") from upstream kernel. > Kernel versions older that 4.12 do not have kvzalloc() try to avoid > the > usage of this. Can't we backport these? There was a patch from AceLan Kao to do so in a pretty simple fashion, but that should still be better than a patch? johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in