On Sat 02-06-18 09:43:56, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:53 AM Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > for more context. Linus has pointed out [1] that our (well mine)
> > insisting on GFP_KERNEL compatible gfp flags for kvmalloc* can actually
> > lead to a worse code because people will wor
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 4:53 AM Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> for more context. Linus has pointed out [1] that our (well mine)
> insisting on GFP_KERNEL compatible gfp flags for kvmalloc* can actually
> lead to a worse code because people will work around the restriction.
> So this patch allows kvmalloc
From: Michal Hocko
kvmalloc warned about incompatible gfp_mask to catch abusers (mostly
GFP_NOFS) with an intention that this will motivate authors of the code
to fix those. Linus argues that this just motivates people to do even
more hacks like
if (gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
kvma
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