From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] propagate gfp_t to page table alloc functions
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:08:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120426200845.69915594.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F9A0360.3030900@kernel.org>
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:24:32 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> I was about to add warning in __vmalloc internal if caller uses GFP_NOIO, GFP_NOFS, GFP_ATOMIC
> with Nick's comment and let them make to fix it. But it seems Andrew doesn't agree.
I do, actually.
> Andrew, please tell me your opinion for fixing this problem.
Only call vmalloc() from GFP_KERNEL contexts. Go ahead, add the
WARN_ONCE() and let's see what happens.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-27 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 8:55 [RFC] propagate gfp_t to page table alloc functions Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 5:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-04-24 5:35 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 6:13 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-24 7:19 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 7:48 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-24 8:01 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-24 8:05 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-24 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-24 23:49 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-04-24 23:55 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-25 0:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-04-25 0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-26 0:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-04-26 0:20 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-27 2:24 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-27 3:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-04-27 10:43 ` David Rientjes
2012-04-30 1:25 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-01 7:20 ` Nick Piggin
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