From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932116AbVKMFOi (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:14:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751354AbVKMFOh (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:14:37 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:44476 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353AbVKMFOh (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:14:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:14:29 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Paul Jackson Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, rohit.seth@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Cleanup of __alloc_pages Message-Id: <20051112211429.294b3783.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20051112210913.0b365815.pj@sgi.com> References: <20051107174349.A8018@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20051107175358.62c484a3.akpm@osdl.org> <1131416195.20471.31.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> <43701FC6.5050104@yahoo.com.au> <20051107214420.6d0f6ec4.pj@sgi.com> <43703EFB.1010103@yahoo.com.au> <1131473876.2400.9.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> <43716476.1030306@yahoo.com.au> <20051112210913.0b365815.pj@sgi.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org An even stranger line: fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c has: aentry = kmalloc(sizeof(a_list_t), GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH); Given the gfp.h line: #define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_VALID | __GFP_HIGH) that xfs_buf line makes no sense. There is almost no chance that the author of that xfs_buf.c line was aware they were spelling the empty gfp flag __GFP_VALID. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401