From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kmalloc without GFP_xxx?
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:15:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050629111537.GF14589@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506291402.18064.vda@ilport.com.ua>
On Wed, Jun 29 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> So why can't we have kmalloc_auto(size) which does GFP_KERNEL alloc
> if called from non-atomic context and GFP_ATOMIC one otherwise?
Because it's a lot better in generel if we force people to think about
what they are doing wrt memory allocations. You should know if you are
able to block or not, a lot of functions exported require you to have
this knowledge anyways. Adding these auto-detection type functions
encourages bad programming, imho.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-29 11:02 kmalloc without GFP_xxx? Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-29 11:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-29 11:20 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-29 11:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-29 13:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-29 14:14 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-29 14:23 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-29 14:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-29 15:10 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-29 15:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-29 15:54 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-29 16:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-29 15:12 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-29 16:48 ` Timur Tabi
2005-06-29 17:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-29 17:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-29 18:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-30 7:52 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-30 8:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-30 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-30 6:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-29 11:15 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-06-29 11:18 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-29 11:25 ` Jens Axboe
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2005-06-29 20:28 Manfred Spraul
2005-06-29 20:44 Manfred Spraul
2005-06-30 5:57 ` Steven Rostedt
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