Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] mm: pass alloc_flags through folio, filemap, and bulk allocators

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 05:10:34PM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> The folio, filemap, and bulk allocation interfaces currently hard-code
> ALLOC_DEFAULT before reaching the page allocator. Multiple MM series
> need to select allocator behavior through these paths, so pulling these
> changes out ahead helps both series avoid conflicts.

I really think this 'expose ALLOC flags' idea is wrong.