Re: [PATCH] adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation (v2)

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 10:27:10 EST


>>> Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 07.10.09 15:55 >>>
>On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> - avoid wasting more precious resources (DMA or DMA32 pools), when
>> being called through vmalloc_32{,_user}()
>> - explicitly allow using high memory here even if the outer allocation
>> request doesn't allow it, unless is collides with __GFP_ZERO
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that's no longer an issue in the patch

Oops. Will send out a corrected version in a second.

Jan

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