From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A816B004F for ; Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:26:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4ACCC12E020000780001882B@vpn.id2.novell.com> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:26:22 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation (v2) References: <4ACCA98202000078000187DF@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Hugh Dickins Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >>> Hugh Dickins 07.10.09 15:55 >>> >On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> - avoid wasting more precious resources (DMA or DMA32 pools), when >> being called through vmalloc_32{,_user}() >> - explicitly allow using high memory here even if the outer allocation >> request doesn't allow it, unless is collides with __GFP_ZERO > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > that's no longer an issue in the patch Oops. Will send out a corrected version in a second. Jan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org