Re: [RFC PATCH V2 0/4] Reducing parameters of alloc_pages* family of functions

2014-12-08 Thread Vlastimil Babka
On 12/06/2014 02:07 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Hey all, this is a V2 of attempting something that has been discussed when Minchan proposed to expand the x86 kernel stack [1], namely the reduction of huge number of parameters that the alloc

Re: [RFC PATCH V2 0/4] Reducing parameters of alloc_pages* family of functions

2014-12-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Hey all, > > this is a V2 of attempting something that has been discussed when Minchan > proposed to expand the x86 kernel stack [1], namely the reduction of huge > number of parameters that the alloc_pages* family and get_page_from_freelis

[RFC PATCH V2 0/4] Reducing parameters of alloc_pages* family of functions

2014-12-05 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Hey all, this is a V2 of attempting something that has been discussed when Minchan proposed to expand the x86 kernel stack [1], namely the reduction of huge number of parameters that the alloc_pages* family and get_page_from_freelist() functions have. The result is this series, ordered in the sub