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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add vzalloc shortcut
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:18:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101018191840.89b39aa3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=t2U5wa_7pqcb1pAq6p_x7VqYKbfMDZ10q+Geq@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:55:17 +0800 Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Morton
> >>
> >> Also, a slightly better implementation would be
> >>
> >> static inline void * vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, gfp_t flags)
> >> {
> >>        return  vmalloc_node(size, 1, flags, PAGE_KERNEL, -1,
> >>                                 builtin_return_address(0));
> >> }
> 
> Is this better? might  vmalloc_node_flags would be used by other than vmalloc?
> 
> static inline void * vmalloc_node_flags(unsigned long size, int node,
> gfp_t flags)

I have no strong opinions, really.  If we add more and more arguments
to vmalloc_node_flags() it ends up looking like vmalloc_node(), so we
may as well just call vmalloc_node().  Do whatever feels good ;)

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-19  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16  4:33 [PATCH 1/2] Add vzalloc shortcut Dave Young
2010-10-17  4:50 ` Minchan Kim
2010-10-18 16:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-18 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-19  1:27   ` Dave Young
2010-10-19  1:55     ` Dave Young
2010-10-19  2:18       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-10-19  2:24         ` Dave Young
2010-10-19 13:55   ` Dave Young

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