From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make GFP_NOTRACK flag unconditional
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:40:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121015214040.4ef190eb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1210152102220.5400@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:02:45 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> > > There was a general sentiment in a recent discussion (See
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/18/258) that the __GFP flags should be
> > > defined unconditionally. Currently, the only offender is GFP_NOTRACK,
> > > which is conditional to KMEMCHECK.
> > >
> > > This simple patch makes it unconditional.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
> > > CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> > > CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> > > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> >
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> >
> > I think it was done this way to show that if CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=n then the
> > bit could be reused for something else but I can't think of any reason why
> > that would be useful; what would need to add a gfp bit that would also
> > happen to depend on CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=n? Nothing comes to mind to save a
> > bit.
> >
> > There are other cases of this as well, like __GFP_OTHER_NODE which is only
> > useful for thp and it's defined unconditionally. So this seems fine to
> > me.
> >
>
> Still missing from linux-next as of this morning, I think this patch
> should be merged.
It's in 3.7-rc1.
commit 3e648ebe076390018c317881d7d926f24d7bac6b
Author: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Date: Mon Oct 8 16:33:52 2012 -0700
make GFP_NOTRACK definition unconditional
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 9:56 [PATCH] make GFP_NOTRACK flag unconditional Glauber Costa
2012-09-28 13:19 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-28 14:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-09-28 14:29 ` Glauber Costa
2012-09-28 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-03 5:00 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16 4:02 ` David Rientjes
2012-10-16 4:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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