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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: phillips@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 12/16] UML - Memory hotplug
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 20:32:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060405203233.5fb222ae.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060406015636.GE6924@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> wrote:
>
> +			/* 0 means don't wait (like GFP_ATOMIC) and
>  +			 * don't dip into emergency pools (unlike
>  +			 * GFP_ATOMIC).
>  +			 */
>  +			new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new), 0);

What we've done in the past here is to use (GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH).  It
amounts to the same thing, but it carries some semantic meaning: "whatever
GFP_ATOMIC measn, only don't dip into page reserves".

Plus it future-safes us against changes in GFP_ATOMIC.

I'll make that change.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-24 18:14 [PATCH 12/16] UML - Memory hotplug Jeff Dike
2006-03-24 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-24 23:58   ` [uml-devel] " Blaisorblade
2006-03-25  1:19     ` Jeff Dike
2006-03-25  1:05   ` Jeff Dike
2006-04-05 22:02     ` Daniel Phillips
2006-04-06  1:56       ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2006-04-06  3:32         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-06  3:33           ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-06  3:42         ` Daniel Phillips
2006-03-25 19:26   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-25 20:08     ` Jeff Dike

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