Re: [RFC] propagate gfp_t to page table alloc functions

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:24:32 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was about to add warning in __vmalloc internal if caller uses GFP_NOIO, GFP_NOFS, GFP_ATOMIC
> with Nick's comment and let them make to fix it. But it seems Andrew doesn't agree.

I do, actually.

> Andrew, please tell me your opinion for fixing this problem.

Only call vmalloc() from GFP_KERNEL contexts.  Go ahead, add the
WARN_ONCE() and let's see what happens.
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