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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:58:29 -0800 "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com> wrote:

> v2:
>   - Add __GFP_HARDWALL[3] for bpf and drm users.
>   - cc BPF mailing list

v1->v2 diff:

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~b
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3922,10 +3922,12 @@ fail:
 /*
  * See __vmalloc_node_range() for a clear list of supported vmalloc flags.
  * This gfp lists all flags currently passed through vmalloc. Currently,
- * __GFP_ZERO is used by BFP and __GFP_NORETRY is used by percpu.
+ * __GFP_ZERO is used by BPF and __GFP_NORETRY is used by percpu. Both drm
+ * and BPF also use GFP_USER, which is GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HARDWALL.
  */
 #define GFP_VMALLOC_SUPPORTED (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_NOWAIT |\
-				__GFP_NOFAIL |  __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY)
+				__GFP_NOFAIL |  __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NORETRY |\
+				__GFP_HARDWALL)
 
 static gfp_t vmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags)
 {
_