From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] kvmalloc Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 08:56:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20170130075626.GC8443@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20170126074354.GB8456@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5889C331.7020101@iogearbox.net> <20170126100802.GF6590@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5889DEA3.7040106@iogearbox.net> <20170126115833.GI6590@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5889F52E.7030602@iogearbox.net> <20170126134004.GM6590@dhcp22.suse.cz> <588A5D3C.4060605@iogearbox.net> <20170127100544.GF4143@dhcp22.suse.cz> <588BA9AA.8010805@iogearbox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm , LKML , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , marcelo.leitner@gmail.com To: Daniel Borkmann Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <588BA9AA.8010805@iogearbox.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri 27-01-17 21:12:26, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > On 01/27/2017 11:05 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Thu 26-01-17 21:34:04, Daniel Borkmann wrote: [...] > > > So to answer your second email with the bpf and netfilter hunks, why > > > not replacing them with kvmalloc() and __GFP_NORETRY flag and add that > > > big fat FIXME comment above there, saying explicitly that __GFP_NORETRY > > > is not harmful though has only /partial/ effect right now and that full > > > support needs to be implemented in future. That would still be better > > > that not having it, imo, and the FIXME would make expectations clear > > > to anyone reading that code. > > > > Well, we can do that, I just would like to prevent from this (ab)use > > if there is no _real_ and _sensible_ usecase for it. Having a real bug > > Understandable. > > > report or a fallback mechanism you are mentioning above would justify > > the (ab)use IMHO. But that abuse would be documented properly and have a > > real reason to exist. That sounds like a better approach to me. > > > > But if you absolutely _insist_ I can change that. > > Yeah, please do (with a big FIXME comment as mentioned), this originally > came from a real bug report. Anyway, feel free to add my Acked-by then. Thanks! I will repost the whole series today. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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