Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 12:30:04 EST


On Tue 24-04-18 10:12:42, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 24-04-18 11:30:40, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon 23-04-18 20:25:15, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > >
> > > > Fixing __vmalloc code
> > > > is easy and it doesn't require cooperation with maintainers.
> > >
> > > But it is a hack against the intention of the scope api.
> >
> > It is not!
>
> This discussion simply doesn't make much sense it seems. The scope API
> is to document the scope of the reclaim recursion critical section. That
> certainly is not a utility function like vmalloc.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180424162712.GL17484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

let's see how it rolls this time.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs